A five-year-old girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship in June had been posing on a railing in an open porthole at the behest of her mother, a Florida police report published in mid-October revealed.

Although the woman’s actions were investigated as a possible case of child neglect and found to be “irresponsible” by the state attorney’s office, she won’t face any criminal charges related to an accident that could have proved fatal had her husband not dove into the Caribbean sea to save his daughter.

Video of their subsequent rescue by the vessel’s emergency responders quickly proliferated across social media and made headlines around the world.

According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by National Post, the family, non-Florida residents experiencing their

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