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Published July 03, 2016
A Massachusetts boy, 8, was trampled to death on his family’s farm when a cow got spooked, according to a report.
George Carter was helping his father when the freak accident happened Saturday afternoon, Fox 25 Boston reported. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
“Hopefully he did not suffer,” Peter Carter said of his son.
Carter told the station his son “having a little issue” with the cow.
“I turn around and I see my son tangled up in a lead rope and a cow running down the drive way,” he said. “At that point, he had already been stomped on.”
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Carter fought back tears as he told the station he knew he was fighting a losing battle as he gave his son CPR.
“There was no way I was going to stop,” he said. “I was going to give him every chance I could.”
Carter was also injured wrestling the cow as he tried to save his son, the station reported. He broke his leg.
The father said his 3-year-old daughter doesn’t really understand what happened.
“We haven’t figured out to tell a 3-year-old that the brother she loves very much is no longer here, because I don’t know how to,” he said. “I don’t know how to do it.”
Carter owns 20 cows on a farm in Georgetown, 30 miles north of Boston, and exhibits them at fairs.
Massachusetts State Police are investigating the death.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-8-trampled-by-cow-on-familys-massachusetts-farm