New details are emerging about the tragic suffocation death of a 7-year-old girl on a Florida beach. Sloan Mattingly and her 9-year-old brother were buried when a six-foot-deep sand hole they were digging collapsed. An eyewitness says the children’s father came tantalizingly close to saving her but could not pull her out in time. However, her brother survived and was later released from the hospital. Inside Edition’s Les Trent has more.
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You cannot take your eyes off of your children for even one second at the beach! Always appoint one adult to one child.
Hopefully somebody in the bunch has enough common sense to not allow children to play in a grave sized 6' deep hole in the sand at the beach!
RIP 🙏🏼✝️💗
So awful Just tragic ❤ Rest in peace sweet Sloan ❤
Rest In Peace sweet baby.
NOBODY CAN DIG A 6 FOOT HOLE AT A BEACH WITHOUT A SHOVEL………SOMETHING'S FISHY
Where were parents when their child dig around 6ft?
What is worse is .. innocent kid lost her life bcz of careless parents. I am sorry but this is only parents fault.
Poor baby..RIP.
Stop telling children that it's possible to dig a hole to China… because they might try to do it.
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OMG SHE DIED? I SWEAR I SAW HERE A YEAR AGO IN PUBLIC
It’s sad to hear that. She was only seven when she died. I’m sad to hear that Sloan died at seven years old I
I hope my niece, Riley never goes through what Sloan went through and got killed
Oh so they dug 6 feet down i was assuming it was hollow underneath and gave out
Very tragic and sad. RIP little Sloan.
Parents fault all the way.
WHO in their Right mind allows a child to dig that deep?! This has been an issue over and over again!
Why no life guards??????
So sad 😢
So sad
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God bless this poor family! 😘🙏😘
Were the parents intoxicated
Im so sorry asking Gods comfort
The second I heard SIX FEET DEEP it sent me into a fury.
Who tf allows their small children to just dig a giant hole in the middle of VERY collapsable sand, just yards from the ocean water? No one remembers the ‘quick sand’ stories we learned as kids? Just because it doesn’t work like the movies and stories doesn’t mean sand can’t “drown” you.
Logically, why would anyone dig that deep of a hole on the beach? It’s not “necessary”, does nothing for castle building, too deep for most adults, and just LITERALLY SERVES NO PURPOSE. Saying it “was for fun” is NOT an excuse. You can have fun by playing in the water supervised, digging a small hole for toys, building castles, sand angels, collect shells etc.
Instead, the parents went “let’s allow our kids to dig a hole deep enough for a coffin on the beach on vacation”. And if anyone wants to say, “what if they didn’t know they dug it that deep”,
1. It takes time to move that much sand out of a spot to make a 6 foot deep hole
2. If they didn’t realize, they weren’t supervised.
I’m not insensitive to the situation and it’s horrific this girl died in such a terrifying way. But it was ENTIRELY avoidable.
Bottom line these parents FAILED their kids almost lost them both.
I am from Tennessee, where we don't have beaches.
Digging holes and sand it's something that no one teaches you about I never knew any of this kind of stuff until I read this in your comments but it looks like majority of the ones who know live near beaches or grew up on beaches. So yes for out-of-towners who may not live near beaches or from rural country areas may have never knew any of this. Every time I have went to a beach my kids and have dig holes to make sand bodies. This is open my eyes because I've never knew that. And every time we've done it no one has ever told us like hey you shouldn't do that or have given us a heads up. That's nothing they teach back where I'm from it never heard about it or learned about it because again we don't have beaches near. I am 35 years old and this is the first time I am finding out about that information just from reading all of these comments. I feel so bad for the parents because they took their children on vacation to enjoy in this tragedy thing happened and they may have never known just like me. So people stop blaming and judging the parents because they may have never knew like some of you all may know. Pray for one another help one another and stop judging everyone because you never know and it's not anyone's place to judge.
All you can do is pray for the girl parents the other siblings who was involved in lost his sister right next to him And their family.
If anyone's going to judge it should be the people surrounding who watch the children dig this large hole and no one ever said anything to them to say hey that's not a good idea knowing Florida is a very well visiting state. Because like me I never knew until today reading these comments. And when you go to the beach they don't post that information only about dangers of strong currents.
No lifeguards? Come on, change that! We as a society have to do better!
This breaks my heart
Ah beautiful sloan😢 rip little darling,praying for all your family and friends at this extremely difficult time 🙏❤️xx
I unfortunately don't have much sympathy for the parents. Come at me if you like but who the hell lets their kids dig a 6 foot deep hole in the sand. Let alone in Florida? The sand is so soft anyway and when it is wet it can collapse in a second. Then it is like wet concrete. I can't imagine the horror those two children went through. Poor little girl, life over because of stupidity on the parents part.
I’m at the beach a lot where I live. I probably would have hesitated to warn the parents for fear of their reaction- how dare I tell them what not to do on the beach, etc. I will not hesitate next time I see deep holes dug. Even if it means getting verbally abused. RIP Sloan. Fly with the angels.
She barely lived her little life.. such a tragic event..
R.i.p. baby …
How can u nt know as a parent that this is extremely dangerous!! Omg. Poor little girl
now digging big holes at any beaches,you will be called as a murderer.
a really shocking news.
So tragic. I experienced the very same loss when I lost my daughter. It was the worst loss of my lifetime and I had already lost my husband and both parents. I will pray for your healing and that you get through this. It is possible to get through it with prayer and most especially patience. I wish you that.
Sooooooo sad
I have a solution… stop digging 6 ft. holes at the beach. Build a sand castle instead…
Prayers of comfort and strength for this beautiful family during their time of bereavement 😞
God pls protect their family and the sweet little girl amen
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Does anyone know if it was a vertical hole like a well? Or a really wide one?
Prayers & Condolences ⚘️❤🙏❤
Stop digging holes on beaches for God's sake. Haven't yall learned?
How long were the parents not watching these children for them to dig a 6 foot hole? Plus they were right by the ocean, if it hadn't been death by sandhole I imagine they would have drowned in the water with parents that unattentive. The beach is a dangerous place, it's not the time for you to get complacent as a parent.
how horrible this tragedy is, it is a basic well known fact that especially children, should never dig to deep in beaches.