Toddler Drowns in Cow Shit; Moomie is a "hero" for trying to revive her
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Mother unable to revive daughter
Taranaki Daily News | Saturday, 10 January 2009
"A remarkable tale of a mother's courage has emerged from a Taranaki farm tragedy in which a three-year-old girl drowned in a cowshed settling pond. (
HOW is anything about this story "remarkable"???)
Summer, three, and Brodie Frank, two, had wandered off from their home, on Skeet Road near Auroa, south Taranaki, just before 7pm on Thursday.(
Why isn't moomie watching her toddlers?)
The childrens' mother found them in the pond, which holds runoff from the shed, and jumped into the liquid muck to drag them out.
(
How is this "heroic", like "aunty" says?)
Summer died at the scene. Brodie spent four hours in hospital after his ordeal and was taking medication in case he had swallowed anything from the pond.
He was in good spirits yesterday.
The family is devastated by the death.
Senior Sergeant Mike Hannah, of Hawera, said the children were found in the pond a short time after they went missing.
"She (the mother) has discovered the kids missing and has gone looking for them, she found them in the settling pond," Hannah said.
"She has immediately started CPR and contacted emergency services."
The pond was between 100m and 200m from the house, he said.
( I am still waiting on them to say how this was a show of..." courage, remarkable, or heroic", to try and save them after they were allowed to wander off a couple of hundred meters and toward a KNOWN cowshit pond)
Hannah said the girl's family were devastated by her death.
"The family are distraught, as you can well expect with a tragedy like this," he said.
Summer's aunty, of Auckland, who did not want to be named, said the little girl they nicknamed Mini because of her petite size was "like no other."
"She would wake up every morning with a smile on her face.
"When I spoke to her on the telephone she would always say she missed me and loved me before she gave the phone back to her mother."
Summer loved to help out around the house and wanted to be involved in everything, including cooking breakfast and peeling potatoes for tea, she said.
"She just wanted to do everything, she had a real "I can do" attitude, she would say `Summer will do it'."
( Why WOULDN'T a 3 y/o wake up happy? Do they have bills to pay, a job to go to, yards to mow or laundry to do?. It's no big show of intelligence either to parrot, "I miss you, I love you", on the telephone, ALL kyds do that. As for her "can do" attitude, apparently it doesn't apply to attempting doggie paddling in a cowshit- sludge, quicksand-like, nasty pond. I would have NEVER gone near anything gross like that at age 3) )
Summer adored her mother and father.
The aunt said the family considered Summer's mother to be a hero.
( Again, in WHAT way? Trying to revive a kyd who she negligently allowed to wander off toward a KNOWN danger zone, is NOT "heroic". It's a lot of things, but "heroic" is NOT one of them.)
"It is every parent's worst nightmare to see that," she said yesterday."
(
They ALWAYS say that, always. )
Why do they always play up these parentally negligent stories as something other than what they are? It appears that if the parent isn't outright guilty of murder, then they light candles, set donation cans about town, bring over casseroles, and lament about it being "A parent's worst nightmare".
Taranaki Daily News | Saturday, 10 January 2009
"A remarkable tale of a mother's courage has emerged from a Taranaki farm tragedy in which a three-year-old girl drowned in a cowshed settling pond. (
HOW is anything about this story "remarkable"???)Summer, three, and Brodie Frank, two, had wandered off from their home, on Skeet Road near Auroa, south Taranaki, just before 7pm on Thursday.(
Why isn't moomie watching her toddlers?)The childrens' mother found them in the pond, which holds runoff from the shed, and jumped into the liquid muck to drag them out.
(
How is this "heroic", like "aunty" says?)Summer died at the scene. Brodie spent four hours in hospital after his ordeal and was taking medication in case he had swallowed anything from the pond.
He was in good spirits yesterday.
The family is devastated by the death.
Senior Sergeant Mike Hannah, of Hawera, said the children were found in the pond a short time after they went missing.
"She (the mother) has discovered the kids missing and has gone looking for them, she found them in the settling pond," Hannah said.
"She has immediately started CPR and contacted emergency services."
The pond was between 100m and 200m from the house, he said.
(
I am still waiting on them to say how this was a show of..." courage, remarkable, or heroic", to try and save them after they were allowed to wander off a couple of hundred meters and toward a KNOWN cowshit pond)Hannah said the girl's family were devastated by her death.
"The family are distraught, as you can well expect with a tragedy like this," he said.
Summer's aunty, of Auckland, who did not want to be named, said the little girl they nicknamed Mini because of her petite size was "like no other."
"She would wake up every morning with a smile on her face.
"When I spoke to her on the telephone she would always say she missed me and loved me before she gave the phone back to her mother."
Summer loved to help out around the house and wanted to be involved in everything, including cooking breakfast and peeling potatoes for tea, she said.
"She just wanted to do everything, she had a real "I can do" attitude, she would say `Summer will do it'."
(
Why WOULDN'T a 3 y/o wake up happy? Do they have bills to pay, a job to go to, yards to mow or laundry to do?. It's no big show of intelligence either to parrot, "I miss you, I love you", on the telephone, ALL kyds do that. As for her "can do" attitude, apparently it doesn't apply to attempting doggie paddling in a cowshit- sludge, quicksand-like, nasty pond. I would have NEVER gone near anything gross like that at age 3) )Summer adored her mother and father.
The aunt said the family considered Summer's mother to be a hero.
(
Again, in WHAT way? Trying to revive a kyd who she negligently allowed to wander off toward a KNOWN danger zone, is NOT "heroic". It's a lot of things, but "heroic" is NOT one of them.)"It is every parent's worst nightmare to see that," she said yesterday."
(
They ALWAYS say that, always. ) Why do they always play up these parentally negligent stories as something other than what they are? It appears that if the parent isn't outright guilty of murder, then they light candles, set donation cans about town, bring over casseroles, and lament about it being "A parent's worst nightmare".When I was still deciding whether or not I wanted kids, (this was around age 15) I went through all the worst case scenario's that could happen. Somehow, having my kid drown in a pool of cow shit didn't even cross my mind . I guess I wasn't imaginative enough...
Kaye
. I guess I wasn't imaginative enough...Kaye
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