Somehow I doubt it but one can dream...
Posted on 04/09/2021 1:43:06 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A 13-year-old on a spring break vacation with her family in Orlando saved a toddler at a hotel swimming pool after the little girl sank near the bottom and was unresponsive, her family said.
“She sprung into action, pulled the lil’ one out, as other good Samaritans began CPR until the paramedics arrived,” Matt Henslee of Mayhill, New Mexico, wrote on Facebook on March 27 about his daughter Kaydence.
The incident took place at the Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Lake Buena Vista on South Apopka Vineland Road, Matt Henslee wrote in a message to the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.
The toddler was Haven Williams, 3, from Missouri, whose mother — an employee at a children’s hospital — “said she stepped away from the pool for just a couple of minutes,”
“She was not moving, her lip was purple, so I jumped in and grabbed her,” Kaydence said.
The families stayed in touch, and Kaydence sent Haven a friendship necklace, KRQE reported.
“I simply can’t express how proud I am of her,” Kaydence’s father Matt Henslee wrote on his Facebook profile.
Matt Henslee told the Sentinel that Thursday is Haven’s 4th birthday and that the two families planned to connect via FaceTime to celebrate.
The Henslee family drove across the country and visited the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and other theme parks while in Orlando.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
BLM would say, white privilege. Kaydence would have thought differently if the toddler was black, right?
Kaydence sounds like a good kid.
Somehow I doubt it but one can dream...
i noticed that too....I think Tiffany is busy with the Gawd awful SBTB reboot.
Oh. Drat. Well, I guess I can cancel my ticket to Orlando then. One more dream from my teen years crushed.
Oh my goodness, that poor toddler’s mother is a MORON.
I clicked through to the KRQE report (which has a picture of our heroine but not the toddler). That mother was away for a long couple of minutes and she is as thick as a brick.
From the article “Haven’s mother, Ashley Williams, said she stepped away from the pool for just a couple of minutes. “I just remember seeing another woman run across and yell into the bar area for someone to call 911 because a baby had just drowned,” Ashley said. “I was like, ‘oh my gosh.’ I didn’t think it was my baby.”
Ashley said it finally clicked when she recognized her daughter’s swimsuit. “I just pushed through the crowd,” Ashley said. “I felt that feeling of losing my child.”
I’ve felt that fear too, when I lost sight of my kid for ONE SECOND in a GROCERY STORE. This dame knows she left her 3 year old alone and doesn’t even react when she hears yelling about a drowning child. Having too much fun at the bar I guess. And she works at a CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. Good luck to any children in her care.
If I were in her home jurisdiction I might investigate this dame for neglect, and I don’t say that lightly. She certainly could use some parental training classes.
Love a story with a happy ending, thanks to this 13-year-old heroine.
Kudos to that quick thinking 13 year old.
The mother “stepped away from the pool for just a couple of minutes”. With her 3-year-old in the pool? Idiot!
*limitations apply
It doesn’t say she’s a nurse, so maybe non medical. She did display extremely poor judgement. Can’t see a nurse doing that.
I hope the 13 year-old was wearing a mask.
We also have this life saving story out of NH and West Virginia, but don’t expect to see it in the mainstream media as the video shows a 12 year old with a rifle.
New Hampshire teen credited with saving boy’s life in West Virginia after ATV crash on TikTok
What sort of mother steps away from their 3 year old in a pool?
Disney should have stepped up to give Kaydence a lifetime of free admissions.
Hey, parents. Your little 3 year old isn’t going to remember Disney. Save that vacation $$$ for when they’re old enough to ride the rides.
Ding bat mother was in the bar. She must be related to Madeleine McCann’s parents.
Dream about a high school girl?
Who leaves a 3 yr old alone at a pool for a few minutes?
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