I am captain Seamus O Malley. I am the senior officer in our county Police headquarters. Half an hour ago my radio control officer informed me an Air sea rescue helicopter is due to land on our helipad. Aboard is a five year old girl who claims to have fallen from grass Slope Peak but has no injuries to support that claim. She states that her grandfather caught her and carried her up to heaven. She says that Jesus saw her fall and sent her Grandfather to catch her. As this sounds like fraudulent use of the rescue service I am assigning this case to lieutenant John O’Doyle our chief fraud investigator. I must confess though that I am intrigued by this story and, given what facts I have before me, I can tell this may not be so easy to get to the bottom of. To establish a starting point I called the 911 control centre to see if a child falling over the edge of Grass slope Peak had been called in by any one else. As John O’Doyle was entering my office the 911 controller was reporting that half a dozen other people who were on the tourist trail had called in and reported a child falling over the edge. “Dear God please forgive me for doubting this story but I have to do my Job.” I made Lieutenant O. Doyle aware of all the facts I had and he got right on to checking out the people who had also called in the accident. The Air sea Rescue Helicopter was just landing and I dispatched two female officers to it. They were to take the child straight to the County hospital where a Pediatrician would check her out. I looked at the time of the accident and thought we could get the child to the car park in time for her parents to get down from the peak. As it turned out we had time to spare and our officers were in the car park as the tourists came down. We collected several reports and the address of the people who had called in the accident. They were from all over the country and could have no knowledge of the family who thought they had lost their child. We assured them that the child had survived the fall and was even now being checked over by the doctors. Two hours later the child arrived in the car park in time to see her parents being approached by our officers. After questioning them my officers were off the opinion the whole family were in a state of grief. They were asked to come to the patrol car for a few checks and they were compliant. The officers watched their reaction as their little girl climbed out of it and ran to greet them. There was no way could they have faked their stunned shock and then the bursting of their emotional bubble. The officers looked on with tears in their own eyes but had enough professionalism to record what the little girl was saying. Her mother at one point queried how Grandfather had gotten there in time to catch her as he was very old and frail. “No mummy that is daddies father it was your daddy who caught me.” “But darling my daddy died when I was little and you have never seen him how could you recognize him.?” “I know that mummy because he told me who he was and how he used to sit in his big white rocking chair and rock you to sleep when you were little. He also told me how you threw a stone and broke Mr Carrow’s window.” This joyful little family were allowed to get on their way home but were told that a lady from the hospital would visit them at their home.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:35:30 +0000
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