'I was terrified by what my son found in the park - I just thought oh my god he might die'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mum has been left shaken after her eight-year-old son put a deadly berry in his mouth that he found in a Stockport park. Sarah Goddard, from Hyde, took her son Ethan, who has autism and is non verbal, to Vernon Park on Sunday, October 1 for their usual game of hide and seek in the yew tree maze.
Moments later the game came to a sudden stop when she saw him put a berry in his mouth. The 41-year-old mum caught Ethan, who also has Pica, a condition that causes children to eat non-edible items, in the nick of time and managed to remove the berry.
It was not until hours later that she found out the ingestion of the berry would have had deadly consequences. “We were just playing hide and seek around the maze as we normally do and then he got something in his mouth.
I got it out and it was a berry that had come off the tree,” she said. READ MORE: Woman fears 200 bed bug bites on her face and arms 'might never go away' after night in Blackpool hotel READ MORE: "It's a nightmare" - Worried residents speak out after blaze at abandoned baths blighted by anti-social behaviour Sarah went home to wash Ethan's hands and found he was holding more berries but luckily she managed to take them off him.
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