[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] The parents of the 7-year-old girl who died after getting trapped in a sand sinkhole on a beach last month are opening up about the unthinkable tragedy for the first time.
On February 20, Therese Mattingly and Jason Mattingly took their daughter Sloan and 9-year-old son Maddox to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach during a Florida vacation.
What started as a fun day at the shore soon became a nightmare for the Indiana family. The siblings were digging in the sand to find some seashells when a six-foot-deep hole suddenly collapsed on both of them, and Sloan was buried alive beneath Maddox.
The parents immediately sprung into action to try and save their kids. When alerted to the terrifying situation, fellow beachgoers attempted to help, too, with some frantically calling 911 and others working with Therese and Jason to get the two children out of the sunken hole.
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