PERRY, Maine — Local firefighters went to a beach area at 1:40 p.m. Monday where a 4-year-old took a 10- to 15-foot fall from a beach cliff after slipping on ice while playing with a sibling.
The girl, who landed on the beach, was taken to Calais Regional Hospital by Downeast EMS for evaluation. Perry Fire Chief Paula Frost said it did not appear that the child was seriously injured.
What’s a four year old doing that close to a cliff?
hmmmmmm…let’s see here, perhaps she was playing with her sibling…yup, that’s what the article says…the more you read, the more you know!
Unless you know the facts, don’t go speculating! I know people who know this family, so don’t start with smart*** remarks! Just pray she will be ok. After talking to a friend of the family, she is going into surgery right now, for what, I’m not sure….but save the remarks and pray for her instead.
She has a badly broken arm and will be ok……just a waiting game at this point.
Latest report is, she will be coming home tomorrow.
I thought the article said the little girl had no serious injuries. I hope and pray that she will be okay. My heart and prayers go out to this little girl and her family at this time.
Will you please let us know when you find out how this happened? I’m not being judgmental but it is true that a 4 year old shouldn’t be that close to a cliff… but we all also know just how quickly a small child can go from being in a safe spot to being in a dangerous one. Telling how this happened might help another young parent from finding themselves in a similar situation. I don’t think anyone meant any harm by asking that question. It’s a valid one.
News reporters go with what they are told at the time. And like with many injuries, no one really knows until they get medical attention, as to how serious the injuries really are. I def agree that a small child shouldn’t be that close to a cliff and it was a legit question, but some people on these blogs, have a tendancy of coming up with their own senerio and blowing things wayyyy out of proportion……
I know they do and it’s so not fair to the family… things happen when you have kids even to the best of parents so there is no reason to assume anything based on this article.
No way! Nothing ever gets blown out of proportion in the BDN comments, ever! These are all expert armchair quarterbacks whose hindsight is so highly tuned that you’d swear they have eyes in their rear ends. Or, maybe they just have their heads up their arses. I guess those are two fairly close analogies.
LOL!
You are correct we do not know them. I do know I have a daughter and two grandsons who are 3 and 1 and they would NEVER be allowed on a cliff to play. I hope the kid is ok. I also hope the parent/ parents keep a closer watch on there children in the future.
Can you really call a 10 foot rock a cliff?
you would if you fell off it
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Go measure the height of the slide at your local playground.
Good point!!
A 4 year old on a 15 foot slide? As wrong as that would be, at least it would be a controlled ‘fall’ with something supporting her little fanny all the way down. Just my thoughts on your scenario/comparison.
I have a son who fell off a slide at day care when he was younger (and broke his arm). Granted, it wasn’t 10 or more feet high, but non the less, he fell off the side of it……cuz accidents happen.
My kids never slid down a slide at 4 years without our hands guiding them. But we didn’t do child care back then either. :)
My daughter is 3 and the other is 4 and at a playground I can’t guide them both down the slide at the same time… Accidents happen… People are so quick to judge these days… I agree this is tragic and I am thankful the child didn’t get seriously injured… Lessons hopefully are learned and they will be more cautious next time… If the accident was a repeated offense I might question but seriously people… Take three steps backs and always remember when u point your finger you always have 3 coming right back at ya…
I agree completely. They are kids and its part of growing up.
This thread has gone off on a tangent from my reply to knowitall’s comment, though. Never meant to point a finger or accuse anyone of anything. :)
lol a slide? she was SLEDDING.
Do you bother to READ before spouting off?
This all started with my reply was knowitall.
Now go back and read it again!
nope.
I guess you don’t have kids. What happens when they fall backward? Also I was referring to the ten foot side of the story.
Do they even allow slides on playgrounds anymore?
jeez. yes. of course.
Not much of an eye for sarcasm eh? Seriously though, I have seen a number of playgrounds that have been tamed compared to what I grew up with. No more flying wheels of death type merry-go-rounds.
lol. one of the internet debates is about sarcasm and how to express it. I keep waiting for the sarcastica font to be developed.
some folks add a / in front of sarcasm to let you know its coming:
/oh yeah im sarcastic
in the mean time, we’ll all just muddle through….
:)
Sorry, you’re right. What’s obvious to me when I write it isn’t necessarily so for those who read it.
no need to apologize! but thank you!
ps. do you remember lawn darts? my dad ran out and bought a box. 6 months later some kid in california takes one right through the head
oops
Yeah, I was a kid when those came out. For more of a challenge, play at night!
This is no reflection on my parents, they were actually on me all the time about using the brains God gave me, but it didn’t stop a buddy of mine and I (onetime) from using our bows to shoot arrows straight up in the air, and then hooting and hollering when one would land just feet from us. We were about eight and both had the arrows with rubber suction cups. This wasn’t dangerous enough for us though, so we took the cups off and stuck them in the pencil sharpener for a more real effect. God really worked overtime watching out for me.
Just so happens I saw a young girl fall and break her arm on the slide in Hudson last spring.
Maybe on a nature walk with mom and dad. Maybe playing on their front lawn, heck, Perry Maine…probably going out to sea to check their lobstaah traps. They start young down theyahhhh.
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Exactly. Seems like everytime a child gets hurt nowadays, people are out to blame the parents one way or another. Accidents DO happen and parents can’t put their children in a plastic bubble, for fear of getting blamed every time they get hurt.
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Same here!
she was sleddding.
The Cliff Is In The Back Yard.. You People Need To Stop Saying Bad Things… It Was Icy And She Couldnt Stop.. Accidents Happen… Have Some Respect And Keep Certain Things To Yourselves…
So glad she wasn’t more seriously injured! It could have been so much worse. Hope she has a speedy recovery
Glad that she is OK!! But, weather it is a cliff or a rock.. it is still a long way down for a child.. And, weather she has good parents or bad parents a 4 year old child should not be playing that close to a cliff.. Not bashing on anyone at all.. Just glad that she is OK..
Kids that age RUN everywhere they go…….and are usually much faster than their parents! You don’t know if she was PLAYING near the cliff or just RAN in that direction. It’s called an accident…..and I wish people would stop assuming……
I was not assuming anything.. I was just simply saying glad she is OK. Accidents do happen, and there is nothing anyone can about it.. I understand that.. Weather she was playing that close to the cliff or not, I would never let my child get in any range of it.. Especially where it is icy.. I am not saying that it is anyone’s fault or anything. Children are very fast and do run everywhere they go.. A four year old has a mind of her own and and it is not the parents fault.. I also wish people would stop assuming that other people assume stuff!!
“She Should Not” you go tell her that…the parent know that, but it dosent mean they were next to it playing, she must have wondered off to explore who knows… if there is a cliff so close to homes you would think that the town would have a fence or barrier of some kind too, ever think of that…just food for thought….alot of people could be blamed….it was an accident… its clear somethings will have to change for this not to happen again… but we dont know the area, the terrain, the circumstances….
If your gong to place blame, at least put it where it needs to go the 4year old, after all it was her actions…..
Man, I hate to hear stuff like this. Because where I live in the Pacific Northwest, the sea cliffs are often a 100 feet high. And fatal.
Hope she grows up with better sense than her parents…
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Don’t bash the parents, since we all don’t know EXACTLY how it happened!
Not news.
BREAKING NEWS! Not everything is always reported accurately. Was this 10 to 15 ft straight down or a “cliff” which was merely a coastal rock shoreline or beach. We all hate child neglect, we get it, but we also must get the concept of media shock value. HELLO!!!!
There use to be a campground in Perry. I camped there yearly for 3 years, back in the ’80’s. The cliffs there were cliffs. I hope this little girl has everything in her life turn out just fine.
Hope she will be OK- am surprised she was out in such weather.
Thank God she is going to be ok. Don’t understand what she was doing outside playing as cold as it was yesterday, esp. near a cliff…..
you never played in -35 to -40 weather? and in dangerous places when your parents were out of sight???? sheltered huh?
when we were kids, we’d play in the snow for hours and hours, sliding down anything that went downhill. i remember forgetting my mittens at home and playing in the snow until my hands were blue.
kids. can’t live with ’em. can’t eat ’em.
Kids at school are made to go out in colder weather than it was yesterday!
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Careful, all the liberals are now going to tell you that you were abused by your parents and drugs and counseling is the only way you for you to cope and survive today.
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I think that you may be confusing psychiatrist’s and physician’s with liberals.
How does something like this get into the newspaper? Kids fall all the time. It’s what they do. She wasn’t seriously hurt. My young grandson fell off the monkey bars earlier this year and broke his arm in two places. I guess I should have called the BDN to let them know.
Firefighters, an ambulance and other emergency responders rushed to this scene; it was also broadcast on the police scanner. Those who saw the response or heard the traffic are sure to want to know what happened and/or if the child was injured. I think the BDN would have had far MORE complaints if this was not reported or followed up on.
love happy endings!
How scary is this? I’m so glad that it doesn’t appear that the little girl was seriously injured. Whew… what a close call for her family!
It’s really amazing how some who read these articles like to portray themselves as perfect parents. Good for you! Wish I had had you all around when my kids had to have stitches, crutches, and cases of band-aids!
Glad she is going to be ok!
Okay the story is she was sledding in her backyard with her siblings and MOTHER a BIG backyard with cliffs at the very end they were sledding up by the house and the sled went too fast too far before it could be stopped…NO they were not sledding near cliffs, NO they were not playing on cliffs AND YES she is a good mother who is going to do everything in her power to make sure it does not happen again…Please let it rest people this could of happened to anyone
thank you for your sanity. what a bunch a ninnies on this page.
I’m an aunt of the little girl. My sister-in-law didn’t ask for her daughter to go over the edge. She didnt ask to be a single mom. She does the best she can to raise her children. The kids AND their mom were outside sledding. I don’t know the area where they live. I’ve never seen their yard. I do know their mom is a great person whose only reason for breathing is her children. As any good parent, she would never intentionally put any of them in harms way. Accidents happen. When I was little, I rolled off my sled for fear of running into the side of my uncles house. Instead, I ran head first into a fire hydrant. Is that a reason to yell at my mom for not watching me? This article is extremely vague. Before judging and putting into print all these negative comments, wait for more information.
thanks for saying what needed to be said.
i broke my collar bone when i was in 2nd grade. we were chasing around in the front yard, i was looking behind me while running and BAP! ran in to tree.
love and best wishes to your niece and her mom. she sounds like a great mom.
Please let your sister-in-law know that many people are behind her and praying for the best outcome for her little girl. I hope she’s not reading some of the ugly comments on this forum. Parenting is about doing the best you can to raise your child – that doesn’t mean any parent can put a protective bubble around their child to prevent accidents from happening. Kids do things before you stop them because they just don’t understand danger. As hard as we try to protect children from danger, sometimes we just can’t. I’m sure this had to be a very scary thing for the entire family.
People do not judge this mother! How many of you have a child who has done something dangerous and did it very quickly before you could stop them and certainly without your permission? How many of you have had a child get away from you in a parking lot or store… if something bad happens in those few seconds how would you feel if everyone made ugly comments about your parenting skills? Accidents do happen and there is no reason to believe that the parents allowed the child to play near a cliff.
Well said!
There seem to be alot of articles about the mother’s parenting, etc. I know Perry quite well. I also know that I have been lucky enough to have a child. I realize that playground accidents happen, crazy accidents happen (like my daughter tripping and falling into an organ at 2 and splitting her lip), etc., but part of my responsibility as a parent is to check the area that my daughter plays in before I let her out alone or go with her. I scan for all dangers each and every time because it only takes once to kill. This judgement comes from experience and experience is born of reality. Not 1000 yards from my house, there are cliffs with jagged rocks. I would NEVER allow my child to play there, because I know the rocks are slippery when wet, let alone when covered in ice. I think this mom should be grateful that her daughter is doing well, and we should let her learn from her mistakes and gain wisdom the way all parents do. There is no such thing as a perfect parent… And remember, the BDN is Quick to report and their reporters miss relevent information as well.
There seem to be alot of articles about the mother’s parenting, etc. I know Perry quite well. I also know that I have been lucky enough to have a child. I realize that playground accidents happen, crazy accidents happen (like my daughter tripping and falling into an organ at 2 and splitting her lip), etc., but part of my responsibility as a parent is to check the area that my daughter plays in before I let her out alone or go with her. I scan for all dangers each and every time because it only takes once to kill. This judgement comes from experience and experience is born of reality. Not 1000 yards from my house, there are cliffs with jagged rocks. I would NEVER allow my child to play there, because I know the rocks are slippery when wet, let alone when covered in ice. I think this mom should be grateful that her daughter is doing well, and we should let her learn from her mistakes and gain wisdom the way all parents do. There is no such thing as a perfect parent… And remember, the BDN is Quick to report and their reporters miss relevent information as well.
Glad to hear the little girl is okay. The mother in question is a good person. But you will find she has had issues watching over her children in the past. I would assume DHHS will be stepping in.
wow- why would you even post that here? drama much?
As Paul Harvey would have said, “now we know the rest of the story”.
I trust the family will put up a fence or something to prevent this from happening again?
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