{"id":437486,"date":"2025-09-20T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437486\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:14:13","slug":"girl-3-was-found-dead-in-a-lake-what-happened-next-was-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437486\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 3, was found ‘dead’ in a lake what happened next was a miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ayda’s mum arrived to find police responding to her daughter’s possible abductionThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more<\/a>\"AydaAyda Kenny who fell into a lake in Thatto Heath St Helens in April 2024<\/p>\n

A little girl who slipped away from her nan and was later found floating in a lake barely survived thanks to ‘a miracle’. Ayda Kenny, three, is autistic and non-verbal. In April 2024 she went left the house and fell into a lake<\/a> in Thatto Heath, St Helens<\/a> where she was found ‘unresponsive’ by Merseyside Police officers.<\/p>\n

Police started CPR and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and specialist crews from the North West Air Ambulance Charity (NWAA) arrived shortly after. Ayda was resuscitated, placed in an induced coma, and accompanied by NWAA\u2019s critical care team to Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Ayda’s mum Alex Price recalled: \u201cI got a call from my neighbour, and she said, \u2018Alex, Ayda\u2019s in trouble.\u2019 My heart just dropped. When I got home, the police were stopping cars, checking the boots of people\u2019s cars, thinking she\u2019d been abducted.<\/p>\n

“Then I found out she\u2019d been pulled from the lake. She was face down, submerged. Her nappy had expanded and kept her afloat. I just kept praying, \u2018Please let her survive this by some miracle.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI was screaming, \u2018Please let me get to my little girl.\u2019 I just needed to hold her. But they kept saying, \u2018You need to let them work on her.\u2019 I knew it was bad. If there was hope, they\u2019d have given me something to hold onto.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayda was treated at the scene by the NWAA crew as her condition was critical and she\u2019d suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

\"MumMum Alex Price and daughter Ayda Kenny. Ayda ‘died’ after falling into a pond and had to be resuscitated by first responders <\/p>\n

Rob Evans, a critical care paramedic who treated Ayda at the scene said: \u201cWe were faced with a child who had drowned, been resuscitated from cardiac arrest, and now had a pulse but was being ventilated. Clinically, we had to stabilise Ayda as best we could. Preparing for a safe pre-hospital anaesthetic was critical. Given how ill she was at the time, just surviving was remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Ayda was stable, she was taken to Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital in Liverpool, where Alex was told her daughter had likely suffered up to 20 minutes of hypoxia to the brain.<\/p>\n

The mum said: \u201cShe had weeds in her hair, mud all over her, and smelled like pond water. I was just cleaning her eyes with saline and gauze. It felt like the only thing I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AydaAyda Kenny who fell into a lake in Thatto Heath St Helens in April 2024<\/p>\n

After 48 hours of sedation, Ayda woke up, pulling out tubes and showing no signs of brain damage. Alex continued: “She had died. She was dead when they pulled her out of the water, but they brought her back. And now, by some miracle, she\u2019s exactly the same little girl. She came out unscathed.”<\/p>\n

Ayda\u2019s story is a powerful reminder of the lifesaving difference made by the North West Air Ambulance Charity. Now, Ayda\u2019s mum, Alex, is preparing to skydive on Saturday, September 20, to raise vital funds for NWAA, the team she credits with saving her daughter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Alex said: \u201cI\u2019m just so grateful. It\u2019s an absolute miracle; it\u2019s like winning the lottery. I can\u2019t thank everyone enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

To show support for the charity, follow this link to Alex\u2019s fundraising page: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4pvg0Kn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayda’s mum arrived to find police responding to her daughter’s possible abductionThis article contains affiliate links, we will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,274,14723,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-437486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-merseyside-police","13":"tag-north-west-ambulance-service","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115234214105212958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}