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Mum’s agony after baby daughter drowns in blow-up spa while she’s at work – with girl’s brother, 6, finding body
A MUM has spoken of her agony after her toddler drowned in a blow-up spa in Queensland while she was at work.
Tahlia Brown told how her 17-months old daughter Taidyn Murphy, known as Totty, fell and drowned in the inflatable spa on September 19.
Little Totty was learning how to talk when she drowned in the family’s blow-up spa[/caption]
At the time, Tahlia’s partner Cecil Murphy, Totty’s six-year-old brother and two other children were in the family Gracemere home in Queensland in north-eastern Australia.
Totty’s brother discovered the little girl’ s lifeless body and she was rushed to a local police station where she was given CPR.
Totty was taken to Brisbane Children’s Hospital, where she was put into a medically induced coma.
Totty died the following day in Tahlia’s arms.
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Alyce Pocock, a family friend, described how Tahlia blamed herself for Totty’s death, believing the little girl would have been safe if she had not been at work.
“But I’ve told her that’s ridiculous, she was at work providing for her family,” Alyce is reported as saying by Courier Mail.
“There was no crying or screaming … she [Totty] just got up on a chair and into the spa before drowning.”
The toddler, who Alyce described as “sweet” and always happy to meet new people, had just started to say new words, such as “Mumma”, “Dadda” and “puppy”.
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Sadly, Alyce said Totty’s devastating passing followed a series of tragic events in Tahlia’s life, after her father, stepfather and grandfather died when she was a child.
“No parent should live to see their own child die … the pain is indescribable,” Alyce said.
The family friend has set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for Totty’s funeral.
Alyce said that Tahlia, whose is known as Leah, Cecil and their entire family “have suffered the most unthinkable, unimaginable, unnatural, unfair, and tragic losses anyone can”.
“Baby Totty Girl, the shining light of Leah and Cecils life, she truely [sic] was the happiest, sweetest, most loving baby girl to ever enter our lives,” Alice said on the fundraising page.
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“I’m here to ask you all to help Leah & Cecil in the darkest days of their lives, find some peace and comfort in being able to send our sweet baby girl off in a way she deserves.”
Police is investigating the incident and will prepare a report for the coroner.
Boy, 5, drowns in submerged car swept away in floods as parents and two other kids found clinging to a tree
A FIVE-year-old boy drowned after he became trapped in a car that was swept away in floods in New South Wales.
The boy’s parents and two siblings- aged three and one- were found clinging to a tree to escape the rising flood waters.
The family was travelling along the McGrane Way near Tullamore[/caption]
Emergency services rescued two children and their parents[/caption]
The car was swept away by flood waters[/caption]
The family became trapped in their Toyota Hilux on McGrane Way near Tullamore on Friday.
Emergency services rushed to the area where they rescued two children and their parents, ABC reported.
The boy’s body was tragically found by divers in the submerged car on Saturday.
NSW Police said in a statement: “Four occupants of the Hilux, a 37-year-old man, a 28-year-old woman, along with a young boy and girl, got out and were able to cling to trees.
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“However, a five-year-old boy became trapped in the car before it submerged.”
The boy’s parents and two siblings were taken to Dubbo Base Hospital “in a state of shock”.
Another car with two men also became trapped at the same location but hours later they managed to swim across and call for help.
Eyewitness Fiona Aveyard was one of the first who arrived at the scene and told the outlet it was a “miracle they even got a signal to call for help”.
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She said: “We arrived in the dark in water that was backed up a couple of hundred metres from the crossing. The water at the low-level crossing was up about a metre-and-a-half.
“They were downstream in the creek clinging to trees — a mother, a father and two young children.
The five-year-old boy was found on Saturday[/caption]
The parents and the children were found clinging on trees[/caption]
“If that second vehicle hadn’t come across, there’s no way we’d have that family here this morning. They couldn’t have clung to those trees with children all night.
A police investigation into the incident is underway.