‘Mamma was saying her prayers’: What girl, 3, told a family member in hospital after she was found clinging to her dead mother in freezing floodwaters
Collette Sulcer, 41, died on Tuesday after she got swept away by floods in Beaumont, Texas while carrying her daughter Jordyn to safety
The three-year-old was found clinging to her mother’s body as they floated in freezing floodwaters
Jordyn was found wearing her pink backpack and suffering hypothermia
She pulled into a parking lot along Interstate 10 around 3.30pm on Tuesday
Her mother had stopped driving and tried to walk to safety when they were swept away by strong currents
Sulcer fought desperately to keep her child’s head out of the water to save her
By EMILY CRANE
DAILYMAIL.COM
31 August 2017
The three-year-old girl found clinging to her dead mother in freezing floodwaters later told family members that her mother had been saying her prayers.
Collette Sulcer, 41, died on Tuesday after she got swept away by strong currents in Beaumont, Texas while trying to carry her daughter Jordyn to safety.
The little girl was found wearing her pink backpack and suffering hypothermia when rescuers pulled her and her mother’s body from the water.
‘Mama was saying her prayers,’ Jordyn, who was recovering in hospital on Wednesday, told a relative, according to the New York Times.
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