(from NINEMSN)
Rugby league star Julian O'Neill's 13-month-old daughter Piper has died after a television toppled from a cabinet and fell on her, The Sunday Telegraph reported today.
The accident happened at Julian and wife Nicole's Botany townhouse on Friday afternoon while the toddler was playing with her brother, aged three.
She died on Friday morning at the Sydney Children's Hospital when the couple had to make the heart-breaking decision to turn off her life support because the prospects were bleak, the newspaper said.
Piper's godfather, Sydney radio announcer Alan Jones, said the death was a terrible tragedy.
"It's impossible to know what happened but somehow the TV set - it was an enormous one - that was in a cabinet fell on the little girl," Jones told the newspaper.
"She received shocking injuries and brain damage."
O'Neill's former boss South Sydney chairman George Piggins said: "It's a crying shame and everyone here at Souths is so sorry for them. Words can't express it really".
O'Neill lost his mother to a car accident when he was five years old. A year later his father died from a heart attack.
Rugby league star Julian O'Neill's 13-month-old daughter Piper has died after a television toppled from a cabinet and fell on her, The Sunday Telegraph reported today.
The accident happened at Julian and wife Nicole's Botany townhouse on Friday afternoon while the toddler was playing with her brother, aged three.
She died on Friday morning at the Sydney Children's Hospital when the couple had to make the heart-breaking decision to turn off her life support because the prospects were bleak, the newspaper said.
Piper's godfather, Sydney radio announcer Alan Jones, said the death was a terrible tragedy.
"It's impossible to know what happened but somehow the TV set - it was an enormous one - that was in a cabinet fell on the little girl," Jones told the newspaper.
"She received shocking injuries and brain damage."
O'Neill's former boss South Sydney chairman George Piggins said: "It's a crying shame and everyone here at Souths is so sorry for them. Words can't express it really".
O'Neill lost his mother to a car accident when he was five years old. A year later his father died from a heart attack.
