A DESPERATE mother battled frantically to save the life of her daughter after a freak accident left the little girl hanging by her neck from a backyard swing.
Zoey Baillie, 3, was last night fighting for life in hospital. She was playing on the swing with her mother at a property at Koumala, south of Mackay, on Thursday afternoon when her mum Shanah Grandison briefly turned away to feed some animals.
When Ms Grandison turned back she found her daughter unconscious and with the rope tied around her neck.
Rescue crews rushed to the Koumala- Bolingbroke Rd property and performed CPR on Zoey, successfully reviving her before she was flown to Mackay Base Hospital by a rescue helicopter.
After receiving treatment at Mackay, Zoey was flown to Townsville Hospital where she remains in a critical but stable condition on life support, surrounded by family and friends.
