New Jersey girl killed in badminton racket accident in Maine – NECN

A 6-year-old girl was accidentally killed by a broken badminton racket while playing with her brother while on vacation in Maine last week, police said.

The bat’s aluminum shaft came loose from the handle and struck the girl, identified as Lucy Morgan, in the head around noon Saturday as she played with her older brother. The bat pierced her skull, Maine State Police said Friday.

Lucy was taken from her home in Limerick, a city west of Portland, to a nearby hospital and then flown to Maine Medical Center. But she died on Wednesday, police said.

The injury was unintentional and an accident, police said. In a statement, they wrote: “The Maine State Police would like to extend their deepest condolences to the Morgan family,” who are from Stockholm, New Jersey.

Lucy’s father, pastor of a church in Rockaway, New Jersey, documented her time in the hospital on his blog.

“After extensive, thorough testing and even more repeat testing to make sure, she was declared brain dead at 1:32 a.m. on June 5th and her heart stopped beating around 4 a.m. Lucy was with Jesus,” wrote her father, Jesse Morgan.

He also said that last month his wife gave Lucy a prayer journal that they found in her backpack after her death. The first entry read: “God is so wonderful and he is the real God and he created everything and he died on the cross for our sins.”

Lucy’s father commented: “It’s almost as if God was writing to her and drawing her to Himself. How a six-year-old can write such diaries is a mystery to me.”

The Morgans’ church, Green Pond Bible Chapel, said it would hold a memorial service for Lucy on June 15, and Pastor Ryan Boys wrote a letter to the congregation Wednesday reflecting on the loss.

“As hard as this is for the Morgans, they are not crying and they are not alone,” he concluded.