A Missouri mom was at a pool party with her toddler daughter when the weather changed and the kids began coming inside. Next thing the mom knew, little Alise wasn’t with her. Then she saw a foot pop up from under a pool raft and panic set in.
The 3-year-old had been dead for 12 minutes, despite recovery efforts. With mom on her knees pleading with God to spare her little girl, something unexplained happened several times over.
Jaime Nipper, whose husband is in the military, took their daughter to a pool party at a friend’s house in Cape Girardeau. What was meant to be an exciting get-together, turned on a dime when lightning rolled in. Seeing the stormy weather in the distance, the adults ordered all the kids out of the pool.
Little Alise had been wearing a life jacket, but Jaime took it off before going inside. “For a split second, I thought keep her life jacket on,” Jaime said, but she went against her gut and removed it. That fateful decision led to a tragic outcome that would end in a way nobody could explain.
Jaime glanced over her shoulder to where her toddler had just been, but she was no longer there. The frantic mom looked out at the pool and described that something “overtook” her. “I remember jumping across the pool, coming up and shouting, ‘Dial 911!’” But as she acted, her mind stopped to do one very important thing that would prove more effective than anything else she was capable of. Jaime began to pray to God, as she grabbed Alise out of the water and pulled her to the patio.
“I was praying while I grabbed her that she would start coughing as if she’d just fallen in, but when I brought her up from the water, it was evident she was without life. She was blue,” Jaime said.
