Mom Forced To Choose Which Child to Save

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-09-09 03:03
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  Rachel Edwards had seconds to decide after the car, in which she was driving two-year-old Isabella and Jack Brennan, 16, plunged into a dyke and began sinking.
  
  The mum got out of the vehicle through an open window and returned to try to free her children - whose passage out of the car was blocked.
  
  Mrs Edwards was able to pull Isabella out but could not rescue Jack without letting go of her daughter.
  
  The 39-year-old - who was six months pregnant at the time of the accident - told the Derby Telegraph: "I saw the bottom of the car so I shoved my hands under and I felt her car seat.
  
  "I pulled her out and I knew she was still alive. I tried to go back for Jack but I knew, if I let go of Isabella, then I wouldn't be able to get her back."
  
  Two of Jack's friends, who were also in the car, managed to escape and run for help.
  
  After taking her daughter to safety, Mrs Edwards said she tried to go back to save Jack but was held back by paramedics who arrived at the scene.
  
  A police officer pulled the teenager from the Citroen Xsara estate but he was confirmed dead in hospital.
  
  Mrs Edwards said she had told Jack to shut his window shortly before the car hit a pothole and veered off the road in Midville, near Boston, Lincolnshire, in August.
  
  "I told him to close it before we went into the dyke because Isabella was sitting behind him in her car seat and she was asleep," she said.
  
  On August 24, only five days after his death, Mrs Edwards collected Jack's GCSE results.
  
  She said: "He got Cs and Ds. That was what he needed to get into college. He might have not got As or anything, but he made a lot of people happy and that to me is more important than exams."
  
  More than 300 people attended his funeral on Friday in Dunmow, Essex.
  
  Jack's father Carl Brennan, who lives in Alvaston, Derbyshire, and is separated from Mrs Edwards, said: "It is a hard thing to put into words how I feel. You don't think you would ever have to bury your child."
  
  Mrs Edwards' third child, a baby boy, is due on November 21 - just three days after Jack's birthday.
  
  Lincolnshire Police said the accident was being investigated by a collision team and a report will be sent to the coroner.

  
  
  Mum Saved Daughter As Son Drowned - Yahoo! News UK
  
  can't really blame her
  not likely a pregnant woman would be able to save a grown human.
• Kazuni wrote on 2010-09-09 03:13
  That's so sad :\
  
  I feel so sorry for her.
• Zid wrote on 2010-09-09 03:48
  Always tragic when you have to choose.
  
  Not even the notion of the boy understanding what was to be.
• Byte wrote on 2010-09-09 03:51
  Wow, um... that's tough. There's bound to be post-traumatic stress after that >_>'
• Piko wrote on 2010-09-09 04:16
  Now that's pretty messed up.
• Time wrote on 2010-09-09 04:18
  What a horrible situation....
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-09 04:18
  I am really sad. This reminds me of a movie with Macaulay Culkin.
  
  

  She said: "He got Cs and Ds. That was what he needed to get into college. He might have not got As or anything, but he made a lot of people happy and that to me is more important than exams."

  
  
  In the end, I don't believe it's about your grades or how much money you got or how popular you are, it's about the impact you make on people throughout your life. It's about how happy you were. That's what truly counts.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-09-09 04:22
  Should have saved him.
  
  16 years down the drain... or lake.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-09 04:24

  Quote from RicochetOrange;150179:

  Should have saved him.
  
  16 years down the drain... or lake.

  
  
  Of course she wanted to! It was her son.
  
  Should =/= could.
• silentselene wrote on 2010-09-09 04:32

  Quote from Phunkie;150174:

  I am really sad. This reminds me of a movie with Macaulay Culkin.
  
  
  
  In the end, I don't believe it's about your grades or how much money you got or how popular you are, it's about the impact you make on people throughout your life. It's about how happy you were. That's what truly counts.

  
  
  yes, that's what does count. Over time I've realized that the purpose of life is to be happy and to make others happy.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-09-09 04:35

  Quote from Phunkie;150182:

  Of course she wanted to! It was her son.
  
  Should =/= could.

  
  
  She could, at the cost of her other child, however.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-09-09 05:49
  Either way, she would've lost one.
• Chihaya wrote on 2010-09-09 19:38
  That's so sad!...