I tragically lost 3 daughters ...so now I’m bringing up their children as my own
Gran: I’m all they have
A MOTHER who lost all three of her daughters in unconnected tragedies is bringing up their children as her own.
Despite her heartbreak, Samantha Dorricott is caring for Jenson, five, and Chantelle, four, because she has a “job to do”.
Samantha, 44, said: “My beautiful grandchildren have lost their mothers. I am determined to be the best grandma and mum to them I can be. I am all they have left.”
The first death came in 2009 when 15-year-old Emilie died at a party after experimenting with drugs.
Amy, 21, passed away three years later after two strokes. She was born with health problems and had bowel and liver cancer. Samantha had to turn off her life-support machine.
Amy was mum to Jenson and Samantha became his legal guardian.
Third daughter Abbie, 19, fell asleep after leaving a chip pan on and died from smoke inhalation last year.
Samantha, of Treorchy, South Wales, was babysitting Abbie’s girl, Chantelle.
Now she is bringing up the two tots with partner Robert Davies, 37, and her only son Nathan, 18.
The whereabouts of the fathers is not known. Samantha said: “Jenson is so much like Amy - he is sweet and sensitive and loves to be fussed and is always asking me to pull his socks up.
“Chantelle is a mini-version of Abbie – she’s feisty and independent and bossy.”