Mother posts heartbreaking tribute to two-year-old daughter who drowned in pool while family was celebrating her birthday
- Violet Mae Satterfield snuck into the pool at her birthday party on July 1
An Alabama mother has posted a heartbreaking tribute to her two-year-old daughter, who drowned in the family's pool while they were celebrating her birthday.
'Sleep sweet my beautiful angel,' Rebekah Satterfield, the mother of Violet Mae Satterfield, wrote on Monday as she officially announced her daughter's passing.
'We only had two years with you, but they were filled with the happiest moments of my life,' she continued.
'I will carry you with me in my veins until the day I see you again, my love.'
Violet had snuck into the pool at her birthday party on July 1 without her flotation devices on, and was later found by her parents 'blue with no pulse,' her mother wrote on Facebook at the time.
Violet Mae Satterfield, 2, snuck into the pool at her birthday party on July 1 without her flotation devices on
Her mother, Rebekah Satterfield, right, posted a heartbreaking tribute to the young girl on Monday as she announced Violet's passing
She was then rushed to a local hospital and airlifted to Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham, where she was put in a hypothermic sleep to help heal her brain.
As she laid in the hospital for nearly a week, donations poured in to an online fundraiser to help the family with the young girl's medical expenses. It had netted more than $30,000.
But on Sunday, Satterfield wrote that Violet had two brain death exams, neither of which showed promising results.
'I cannot thank all of her prayer warriors enough for keeping her name risen these past few horrible days,' she said, noting: 'We are taking this time as a family to say goodbye.
'I'm so sorry to be delivering such bad news after all of the uplifting words you all have poured over us.'
As Violet laid in the hospital, donations poured in to help the family with her medical expenses
Violet's organs will now be donated, Satterfield said, 'as we want to give someone else a chance at saving their baby.'
According to Alabama's Legacy of Hope, Violet could save up to eight lives, WAFF reports.
The family has not yet announced plans for the young girl's funeral due to the donation waiting period, but Satterfield has asked that it be filled with purple.
'Wear purple for my baby while we celebrate her short life,' she wrote in the post Monday. 'Daddy and I love you so much, Violet.
'Until we meet again.'
