A mum-of-three has described the dramatic moment her nine-year-old autistic child jumped into a lough to save a teenager struggling in the water
A Co Tyrone mother-of-three has described the dramatic moment her nine-year-old autistic child jumped into Lough Neagh and saved the life of a teenager who was struggling in the water.
"The kids like to jump in from the marina side. Over the course of the past two years they've built up their confidence from non-swimmers to swimmers, from wearing life jackets to not having to wear life jackets. They were jumping in, having the craic as children do in the nice weather.She continued: "So they were down in the afternoon carrying on, and these teenagers came down. If you known Moortown at all you'll know there's a lot of houses around it.
"I jumped up. I was about, say 70 or 100 metres away. Not far but far enough that that child was going to go under and she wasn't going to come back up again. So I started running and heard this splash." The 'Swimming Mammy' is now putting on swimming lessons to people in the local area, with the people behind local water park 'Splash' in Moneymore offering use of their facilities free of charge.
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