6 year old hailed as hero
Published: July 31, 2007
With her parents out of town and her babysitter badly injured, a 6-year-old Saginaw girl is being called a hero.
Not only was Kaylin Bradshaw able to take care of her three younger sisters, but her insistence on finding her babysitter may have saved the woman’s life.
It was before noon on Sunday when five young children were playing in a west-side Saginaw home. Then the oldest child realized their babysitter was missing.
“(It was) first trip we’ve been on since we’ve had all of them,” said mother Terilyn Schoen.
It was the first trip Schoen and her husband had taken without their four children — Kaylin, 6, 4-year-old Taylor, 18-month-old Makenzie and 3-month-old Sydney.
With their trusted babysitter Lynne Dey watching the children — plus Dey’s own grandchild — the couple was at Cedar Point when they got a phone call from Kaylin.
“My stomach got hungry and I went downstairs,” she said.
It was those hunger pains that made Kaylin stop playing and go downstairs, only to realize her babysitter was nowhere to be found.
While most 6 year olds might take the opportunity to grab an extra cookie or keep playing, Kaylin searched the home for Dey.
“She was all the way down there by the last stair,” she said. “She was sleeping.”
Her babysitter was unconscious, bleeding from both ears and her arm, apparently injured after falling down the stairs.
Kaylin woke her up, and despite the babysitter saying she was fine, Kaylin called her parents cell phone number.
“We kept saying, ‘Are you bleeding?’ She would say, ‘No, I’m not bleeding.’ And Kaylin is saying, ‘She’s bleeding, she’s bleeding. Don’t listen to her,’” Schoen said.
The babysitter was in no condition to take care of the children, so Kaylin sprung into action, first getting 3-month-old Sydney to stop crying and then attending to Makenzie, who was in a playpen.
“I wasn’t going to get ‘Kenzie out until I put Sydney to sleep,” Kaylin said.
The babysitter’s son called 911, and an ambulance arrived as Kaylin continued to care for the other four children in the home.
A 6 year old’s curiosity and motherly instincts won the admiration of her parents and her sisters.
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