Girl, 2, drowned in her buggy after father let go to kiss mistress

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what a bastard

Ponders - that information is not in this report though, so I can only go on what is actually reported. And it says in this article that it was a tragic accident, so for now nless further information shows it to be otherwise, I will have to accept it was a tragic accident, and that dad was not infact beong neglient and contributed to the incident/

How would they have reported this, had it been the mum it happened to? It's hardly helpful to trowel on the stuff about the affair, as though this is his punishment. Horrible - and a horrible OP too.

It's a horrible horrible story, what an awful thing to happen.

Just does make the point to be so so careful around the sea. How tragic for all concerned

The child's mother would have put the brake on? Really?

Being a mother makes me able to forsee tragic accidents? Makes me infallible?

That is good to know.

I think that the family have suffered enough without the whole affair being dragged through the press.

the phrase 'it has emerged' instantly makes me think this story wasn't juicy enough so we have made stuff up.
this family are suffering enough, the dad will feel terrible forever and if it is true did his wife really need it splashed all over the papers?

tragic story - but don't you think its really off - not just to have an affair - but to take your kids on a 'date' - pre verbal kids of course ! AND if you were a mistress - would you go ?

I am fairly sure that most of us have let go of the buggy at some point and had it move a little way off. The feeling of terror is something else, even when it turns out to be a non-incident. This is an horrific accident but the mistress angle is, as has been said, gutter press crap and should not have come out IMHO it adds nothing but sensationalism to the whole thing.

I feel so awful for the family of this poor little girl including the father, who did something wrong but nothing that could come close to deserving an albatross like this.

it was not wind, "The buggy just slipped away from them on a sloping bit of pathway and that was it."

God - poor family. What a ghastly, ghastly thing. And at some of the posts on here. A bit sorry for him? Blimey.

they where standing next to a 15ft drop, i do think most people would either put the brake on or hold onto the buggy when standing next to the sea wall with a 15 ft drop.

Must be nice to be perfect. Have you seriously never, never done anything/not done anything that just "might" have led to a horrible accident?

What about dads without mistresses. Do they put the brake on?

My dd had to be caught by someone else rolling merrily across waitrose car park in a trolley once. I hadn't noticed - was sorting out the shopping in the boot.

Come on. That's what we do? Us perfect mothers?

If I was the mother, I'd be fucking furious with him (if I had any energy to do anything other than grieve). The kids shouldn't have been there in the first place - what kind of creep takes his babies along on a date with the 'mistress'? And if he had taken them out on his own, he might have been paying a bit more attention to them, not the other woman.

The man is guilty of severe negligence, at best, IMO. Saying 'the same thing could have happened to a different man or woman in different circumstances' doesn't make what this man did right or excusable.

What Edam said.

What kind of sleaze ball takes his DCs on a "date"?

If I were the mother, I would agree I think. But as an onlooker, I see a man who has lost his child through in a terrible tragedy, completely unintentionally, and really dont get any further than that.

It doesn't make it right. But to say that a mother would not make the mistake of forgetting to put the brake on is ridiculous.

That he is a sleazebag to take his kids on a date with his mistress, who is a family friend, goes without saying.

Whilst I have every sympathy for his loss - which is shattering and life altering - I have absolutely no hesitation in condemning his behaviour. His daughter died in an accident yes - but an accident that occurred because he was where he shouldn't have been and was focusing on someone he shouldn't have! He has to live with the knowledge that his daughter died because he didn't take care to prevent it - unfortunately so does the rest of their family.

"But to say that a mother would not make the mistake of forgetting to put the brake on is ridiculous"

On a sloping sea wall, with a 15' drop to a freezing sea - you think?

This is a horribly tragic story. I feel very sorry for ALL concerned. The father will have to live with what happened every day for the rest of his life. If he can. Poor little girl, poor family.

I'm with KingCanuteIAm on this one.

Also we know nothing of the family circumstances. I'm not justifying the father's affair just reserving judgement until the facts are known if that ever happens.

And yes he should have put the brake on the pushchair and I'm sure there's no one more aware of that fact than this father. I'm also sure he will regret not doing so for the rest of his life.