The devastated parents of the seven-year-old girl who lost her life after the hole she was digging on a Florida beach collapsed in on her are speaking out for the first time.
Last month the tragic story of Sloan Mattingly spread around the world after the little girl’s death during a family day out to the beach at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
Parents Therese and Jason Mattingly recalled that the day had been “perfect” up until the moment the unthinkable happened. Sloan and her older brother, nine-year-old Maddox, were digging a hole in the sand when things “just became chaos and horror”.