ORLANDO, Fla. — The mother of a 5-year-old girl who fell off of the Disney Dream cruise ship in June will not face a criminal charge, the Broward State Attorney’s Office decided.

The family, who live outside of Florida, were taking photos about 11:30 a.m. June 29 on Deck 4, which features a wraparound exercise track and some areas with porthole windows. The girl climbed onto the railing in front of one of the windows, turned around to face her mother and tumbled backward, 49 feet down into the ocean while traveling from the Bahamas to Port Everglades at about 12 mph, according to a State Attorney’s Office close-out memo obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday.

Many other portholes on the ship the mother had taken photos with were blocked with glass barriers, and she assumed

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