The three-year-old boy tragically killed at a play centre in Queensland has been named.
Hunter Young was playing at the Toowoomba Inflatable World with his grandparents on Sunday when he was found unresponsive and suffering head injuries.
Three-year-old Hunter Young. Source: Facebook.
Witnesses told Seven News the boy was playing unsupervised at the time and was found lying beside one of the inflatable objects.
Hunter was cared for by members of the public who provided first aid until an ambulance arrived and rushed to Toowoomba Hospital before being transferred to Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital. But on Monday, his parents made the decision to turn off his life support.
Inflatable World. Source: Facebook.
Inflatable World Toowoomba issued a statement to Facebook following the tragedy saying, "We are devastated by the news that a child has passed away in hospital after collapsing at our venue on Sunday afternoon.
"A full investigation involving all relevant authorities is underway, we have also undertaken our own internal investigation, are working with authorities and have passed on our findings. Inflatable World takes the health and safety of our patrons, staff and others very seriously while they are on our site and have taken extensive measures to ensure we have the highest standards for workplace safety."
The 3-year-old was found with a head injury. Source: Instagram.
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The mother suing is right about these kinds of centres not employing enough competent staff. I've been to places like this with my young nieces and nephews and I came to realise quickly that they were very uninterested in the safety of the kids. They were more interested in the kiosk sales and setting up/taking down birthday parties. It took 15min just to get an icepack for my niece after another adult stood on her hand.
She is a mother of five. Do you think she should clone herself so that she can supervise all her children???? As a mother of 4 I know how tough it is at these centres, I can only imagine how much harder it is to have 5. Give her a break she can't be everywhere at once.
My brother took his three kids to a similar place and even with two parents, two grandparents and an aunty supervising it was hard to keep track of them all time . Especially with all the extra kids running around everywhere. Its chaos in these places.