DROWNING SHATTERS MOTHER’S HEART
THE mother of a 13-year-old boy who died while swimming at a popular Gold Coast swimming hole says she doesn’t know “how I’m going to get through it.”
Aiden Braumann was swimming at
Cedar Creek Falls in the Gold Coast hinterland with a friend while under adult supervision about 5pm on Thursday.
According to police, the two boys “got into trouble” and Aiden failed to return to shore. Emergency services were called a short time later.
A ground-and-water search by specialist police, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and Queensland Ambulance went well into the night. His body was found by police divers and swift water rescue teams just after 10pm.
Aiden’s mother, Sherry Carroll, first wrote on Facebook about 7pm, pleading for information on her missing son.
THIS IS THE HARDEST THING AND (I) DON’T KNOW HOW I’M GOING TO GET THROUGH IT MY SON. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
SHERRY CARROLL
“All his friends say he just disappeared,” she wrote.
Hours later, after receiving the news her son had died, she wrote how much she loved him.
“This is the hardest thing and (I) don’t know how I’m going to get through it my son, Aiden Braumann. I love you so much,” she said.
Aiden’s aunty Samara took to social media to thank people for their kind words after the search came to a “shattering end”.
Friend Maryam Sharry said Aiden was her “old school close friend and we will all miss him”.
Tish Davies wrote: “RIP, miss you so much”
Police on Thursday night thanked fire and ambulance crews for their help in the search-andrecover mission.