A 5-year-old girl who fell off the Disney Dream cruise ship had been posing for a photo inside an open porthole moments before she plunged into the ocean, according to a newly released police report.

The accident happened on Sunday, June 29, during a four-night Disney Cruise returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The child’s father jumped in after her, and both were rescued within minutes by the ship’s emergency team.

According to the report from Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office, the family was walking along the fourth deck when “they stopped to take a photo of the daughter.”

The mother “pointed to the porthole railing, and the daughter climbed on the railing and sat down. The daughter lost her balance and fell backward off the railing into the ocean,” the report stated.

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