8 y.o. Hero saves sister from hanging
Published: October 8, 2004
A boy of eight leapt into action to save his toddler sister from hanging to death.
Nathan Watson lifted up two-year-old Charlie and freed her when he found her with a cord wrapped around her neck.
And yesterday their mum Margaret-Anne, 32,praised her hero son.
She said: ‘I was feeding my four-week-old girl and Nathan was doing his homework.
‘Charlie was wanting him to go upstairs and play.
‘She was shouting to him, as they are always playing together.
‘I said, ‘Go and see her.’ Charlie had been jumping up and down on a bed and had climbed on to a window ledge.
She was playing with a window cord and wrapped it round her neck.
But when Nathan entered the room, she jumped off the ledge to show Nathan how high she could jump, forgetting the cord was still around her neck.
Terrified Charlie was left hanging between the bed and the wall. Margaret-Anne said: ‘It was a knotted cord attached to the venetian blinds.
‘There was no way she could have freed herself.
‘Nathan saw her and jumped on the bed and lifted her up and disentangled her.
‘He picked her right up and she is a big two-year-old.
‘Instinct must have told him to do it.’
She added: ‘All I could hear downstairs was her screaming, and I heard him screaming at her.
‘So I thought when it stopped she must have been fine. Nathan helped her down the stairs, but I didn’t realise how severe it was until I saw her neck.’
Margaret-Anne, of Motherwell, whisked Charlie off to the doctor’s.
And because of Nathan’s quick thinking, the toddler only suffered a painful mark on her neck.
Margaret-Anne said: ‘I can’t believe it happened. After it sank in, my knees were knocking together.
‘When my husband Gerard got back, he asked for Nathan so he could thank him.
‘But Nathan just wanted to go play.’
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