6-year-old girl dies in bizarre vacation accident in Maine after her 10-year-old brother’s badminton racket broke during play and the metal shaft pierced her skull

• Lucy Morgan, 6, enjoyed a lakeside holiday with her family in Limerick
• The parents heard screams as the four children played badminton in the yard
• An aluminum shaft had come loose from the wooden handle and hit the little girl

A little girl’s fight for life ended in a Maine hospital, four days after a horrific accident she suffered during an idyllic lakeside family vacation while playing badminton with her 10-year-old brother.

Six-year-old Lucy Morgan was hit in the head by part of her brother’s bat when it broke during a blow on the last full day of her holiday in Limerick.

The girl was flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where her family was told she suffered a catastrophic brain injury in the bizarre accident on June 1.

With no hope of recovery, her three younger siblings came to her parents’ bedside to sing their favorite song one last time before their little “Miss Independent” died in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“This is such a sad, tragic situation,” said Maine State Police. “Our hearts break for the family.”

The young family was preparing to return to their home in Stockholm, New Jersey after enjoying a week of kayaking and outdoor activities.

They had just eaten lunch by the lake when the four children, ages four to 10, went into the front yard to play badminton, said father Jesse Morgan, who is a pastor.

“Bethany and I were relaxing in the back when we heard screaming,” he added.

“Due to a bizarre accident involving a racket that broke during the downswing, a sharp piece penetrated Lucy’s skull while she was sitting on the sidelines, causing a catastrophic injury.”

The aluminum shaft had come loose from the wooden handle and hit Lucy in the head, leaving her unconscious and unresponsive.

She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and then by helicopter to Portland, where surgeons removed part of her skull to relieve pressure on her brain.

She was resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest on the operating table, but doctors told the family that her chances of recovery were slim.

Morgan, a pastor at Green Pond Bible Chapel in Rockaway Township, began documenting his daughter’s struggle on his church blog over the next four days.

And the next day, the devastated parents had to tell Lucy’s siblings that their sister would probably never recover.

“When we entered the hospital room that the staff had generously provided us with, three little people were fast asleep,” her father wrote.

“It hit us so hard in that moment that it was only three and not four. We broke the news as gently as possible, but that’s a conversation you never want to have with a 4-year-old, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old.

“Shiloh immediately broke down. She and Lucy are best friends and the middle girls.

“She couldn’t imagine sleeping alone in her room. AJ was slow to understand this and just wanted to be held, then he fell into his typical 4-year-old machine gun questioning style.

“Silas tried to dominate the tough guy, but then he burst out crying, ‘I don’t want to be a family of five.'”

As news of Lucy’s condition spread, the family received hundreds of messages from well-wishers. “We thank you all for giving us hope,” Jesse wrote.

“90 percent of the messages I get, I don’t know who they’re from. You are wonderful people that God is using to comfort you.”

But on Monday it became clear that the end was near, and they wrote that they were suffering from “significant impairment of brain function” and were therefore facing a “completely devastating” reality.

“The good news is that she has not been in pain for the past few days,” the priest added.

The day flew by as a series of neurologists confirmed the prognosis and the family prepared to say goodbye.

As part of their final farewell, Jesse said the family sang three verses of “He Will Hold Me Fast,” which he described as “one of the most beautiful, sacred things I have ever been a part of.”

On June 5, she was declared brain dead at 1:32 a.m. and her heart stopped beating around 4 a.m.

“I just taught grief counseling in the last adult Bible class before my sabbatical,” Jesse wrote.

“Am I ready to follow my own advice? Now that I’m holding her hand, I’m not sure, but I want to.

“We are holding on, but life without Lucy-Goose is unimaginable.”

A GoFundMe.com fund to support the family has raised more than $93,000 from over 850 donors.

Lucy’s funeral will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. ET and will be streamed live on www.greenpondbible.org.