Toddler Left Alone On Boat's Deck Drowns -- While Parents Made Dinner
02.08.2023 - 00:35
/ perezhilton.com
A 13-month-old has sadly lost her life after falling from a catamaran and drowning. How could this happen? Her parents, it seems, were not there to see. No one was.
New Zealand natives Mark and Kiri Toki were on a Fiji getaway with their little girl, Māhina, the NZ Herald reported over the weekend. The parents had docked their nearly 33-foot catamaran, Kalamari, in Musket Cove in western Fiji Friday, after arriving from their home of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. The outlet cited a police spokeswoman who claimed the child was strapped to the boat’s deck in a harness to watch a movie while her parents stepped away to cook dinner. Sadly, though, when they returned, their little angel was nowhere in sight.
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A frantic search was immediately launched, but the toddler was devastatingly found floating in the water.
How absolutely heartbreaking. We can’t even begin to imagine how those parents must feel… What sounds like it should have been a beautiful vacation, ended in complete and utter tragedy.
The little girl is believed to have “worked free” from her harness before plummeting overboard. Crucially, at the time she was tethered — but not supervised. No one realized until it was far too late that she could get free. When she was discovered, a large party, which included doctors and other medical professionals, attempted to resuscitate her, but sadly, she was gone.
Musket Cove Resort manager Joe Mar told the NZ Herald Sunday that the whole island was in shock after the failed attempt to “revive” the little one:
He added that since the incident on Friday, Mark and Kiri have moved inland to Denarau, where they are cooperating with a police