Brave Five-Year-Old Walks a Kilometer to Save Her Mother

The story of a valiant five-year-old girl is capturing headlines across Brazil. The young girl and her family — father Reinaldo Dos Santos, 52, mother Madilena Godoy, 34, and the little girl — were on a trip in western Brazil when their car lost control. The father veered off the road, crashing into a tree.

Both parents were critically injured, but by some miracle, the child escaped unscathed. She even managed to hear her mother's desperate plea for help before setting off to find assistance. Local media outlet 'Globo' reports, "The child walked a kilometer in the rain and cold until she reached a farm where she spotted a man mowing the lawn."

The man recounted that he had noticed the child earlier, peering through the car window as it passed by him before the accident. In an interview afterward, he described the girl as confused but managed to piece together her broken sentences to understand a severe accident had occurred, and she had escaped through the window while her parents were still 'there.' "I was amazed to learn she had walked alone in the rain and cold for a kilometer without getting tired," he shared.

Rescue teams were called to the accident scene, but tragically, they could only confirm the parents' deaths. The child was sent to live with her cousin.