Photo: Ashley Grimm via Facebook
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: having to bury your child. But that’s just what happened to mother of eight Ashley Grimm, whose viral Facebook post about the incident is horrifyingly tragic. Trust us when we say you will not be the same again after reading it.
Grimm’s four-year-old son, Titus, never liked to wear his car seat’s seat belt because he wanted to be just like a superhero. Ashley tried everything (including zip ties!), but her little one still broke free often.
While driving her van with five of her kids one day, a large rock rolled into her lane. She swerved and smashed into the side of a cliff. Her son, who had once again unbuckled himself without Grimm realizing it, died instantly. “Our lives were instantly ripped apart,” writes Grimm in her heartbreaking description of the accident. “The little boy who had been my pride and joy was cruelly taken from me in a matter of seconds.”
All her other children were sent by ambulance for treatment. But Grimm refused to be looked at by paramedics until she could spend some time holding her dead son. Her only comfort was that he had felt no pain.
Sadly, the immeasurable pain in Grimm’s life was only heightened when she saw reaction to the accident, days later, on social media. The comments on the reports were filled with cruel mom-shaming remarks, including that she deserved this because her son wasn’...