DAD ACCIDENTALLY RUNS OVER 10 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER
A ten-month-old girl was accidentally run over and killed by her father on Thursday night, it was revealed today.
Around 5.15pm, police received a call saying the baby had crawled out to
the driveway of the Slidell, Louisiana, home and was tragically killed.
Deputies say the father was doing work on his car in front of the home, when the family pets got loose. As the pets were being gathered, the infant crawled out of the house. When the father returned to his car, he pulled back into the driveway and ran over his baby daughter.
The Sheriff says this is just a case of a terrible accident. ‘The fact that these horrible accidents do occur, it makes us all reflect and realize that life truly is precious and we better pay attention to the things that are important to us,’ said St Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain.
The father has not been arrested and alcohol is not thought to have been a factor.
According to fire chief Larry Hess, a neighbor of the family heard the child’s father screaming outside his home and went to find out what was wrong. The neighbor did what they could before first responders made it to the scene, Hess said. ‘One of our guys remarked that the father was tremendously distraught and over and over kept repeating, ‘How did that happen, how did that happen,’ he told the Slidell Sentry.
‘I would never want to trade places with that father,’ he added. Hess also confirmed that firemen who responded to the scene underwent ‘critical incident stress management’ following the call.
SOURCE: DM
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