A 'beautiful' toddler died of cardiac arrest after falling into a duck pond while playing in the garden at her grandparents' home, an inquest heard today. The family searched the garden and Violet was found lying face down in the 20-inch-deep pond by her grandmother Angela Peck, Suffolk Coroner's Court was told. Her mother Katie Knox, 30, who is trained in first aid, desperately tried to revive her daughter by doing chest compressions. The family searched the garden and Violet was found lying face down in the 20-inch-deep pond by her grandmother Angela Peck, Suffolk Coroner's Court was told. A postmortem revealed that Violet had died 'rapidly' from a reflex cardiac arrest caused by sudden immersion in cold water, known as dry drowning.

Source: Daily Mail September 22, 2020 14:54 UTC