The mum of a two-year-old girl who died after swallowing a button battery has taken her campaign to save young lives to the Houses of Parliament. Stacy-Marie Nicklin’s daughter Harper-Lee Fanthorpe died in May last year after swallowing a little disc battery that had fallen out of a remote control, reports StokeonTrentLive.
Since then, Stacy-Marie, 36, working with the Sentinel/StokeonTrentLive and local MP Jo Gideon, has set up the Harper-Lee Foundation. It aims to raise awareness about the dangers of button batteries - which are found in many seemingly innocuous household items, including children’s toys - and today the Foundation took its powerful message to the corridors of power.
In the Churchill Rooms at the Palace of Westminster, gathered MPs, government ministers and other policy makers heard of the tragic death of Harper-Lee, and the work that has been done by the Foundation since to try to spread the word about the dangers they pose to youngsters. Stacy-Marie said: “It’s hard to believe that we’re here at Westminster today. I knew when Harper died that I couldn’t let that be for nothing, that we had to do something in her name, to help stop other little ones dying they way she did.
