A two-year-old girl who was fighting for her life after being found unconscious in a park fountain has made a “miraculous recovery”, her mother has said. Grace Lear had disappeared from her mother Hannah and her older brother Noah at Fishpond Park in Pontypool last month after Hannah had taken them there with friends on the way back from Griffithstown Primary School.
Minutes later Grace was found unconscious in a fountain in the park by a stranger, who scooped her out and began chest compressions with the help of other Samaritans while an ambulance was called. Remembering the harrowing incident, Hannah said: “Within ten minutes they just about managed to get her back. A minute or so later the ambulance, police and two helicopters arrived and every person began working hard on her.”
Grace was urgently conveyed to University Hospital Wales in Cardiff but was then quickly sent to Leicester for specialist treatment, where she received a lung and heart bypass due to the seriousness of her condition. Grace was then considered to be in a stable enough condition to return to hospital in Cardiff.
