{"id":691871,"date":"2026-01-12T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:25:12","slug":"doncaster-girl-2-died-after-falling-in-pond-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691871\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster girl, 2, died after falling in pond on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the brief hearing, coroner&#8217;s officer Scarlett Harrison said: &#8220;There was information passed to the police to say that Isobel had unfortunately fallen into a pond at the family home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The family commenced CPR straight away, called 999, CPR was ongoing for 25 minutes before Isobel was blue-lighted to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on Facebook after the death of her daughter, Tamara Wallace thanked hundreds of people who contributed to an online fundraiser to create a memorial fairy garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She wrote: &#8220;Everyone who knows Isobel and us knows how gifted she was, and that she lived more in her two years than some children did in a life time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The generosity has been outstanding, we are very much keeping each other close and being suffocated with love, which is absolutely what we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The toddler&#8217;s aunt, Abigail Maxwell, who set up the fundraiser, said Isobel had been playing with her daughter in the house and disappeared for &#8220;a moment&#8221;, falling in the pond, which had a temporary fence around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t find her for a moment and, in that moment, she&#8217;s gone in the garden and fell in the pond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Maxwell said the pond &#8220;was not there through choice but due to a house move, their forever home which they were renovating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;As you can imagine, this is the worst possible thing that could ever happen to parents, to lose their baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was so happy, so loved and they were the best parents who gave her the most wonderful life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the brief hearing, coroner&#8217;s officer Scarlett Harrison said: &#8220;There was information passed to the police to say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-691871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115884243271492312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691871","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=691871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}