Gold Coast boy 'will not recover' from freak accident with penguin toy

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The six-year-old boy will not recover from the injuries sustained in a freak accident with a toy bought from a Gold Coast theme park. 9News

A devastated Gold Coast family has been told their six-year-old boy will not recover from injuries sustained in a freak accident with a toy on Anzac Day.

Deklan Babington-MacDonald was playing with a penguin toy bought from Sea World just days earlier when he suffered critical injuries and was flown to Queensland Children's Hospital. His family were today told by doctors that Deklan is "beyond recovery" and his "life support will be withdrawn in the next 48 hours"."Devastated doesn't begin to describe how the family is right now," cousin Lea Williams said.

In a statement, Village Road Show Theme Parks said it is "distressed to learn about the tragic accident involving Deklan" and that it "needs to understand the circumstances around what has occurred".A fundraiser to help the family with costs and a memorial has raised more than $10,000.

 

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What a horrible accident. I don't understand what happened at all but it is nevertheless devastating news.

How devastating. RIP young man

No details about the accident?

Makes absolutely no sense how does a heart stop beating from a soft toy unless some electronic device was implanted inside it.

O no. Poor lil angel

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