Mum finds dirty SYRINGE stuck in two-year-old daughter’s shoe during stay at Thorpe Park holiday camp
The syringe hadn't pierced the skin but the concerned mum took the tot to hospital as there was blood around the needle
A MUM was horrified to discover a syringe wedged in her two-year-old daughter's shoe at a holiday park.
Kimberley Travis was staying at Thorpe Park holiday park in Cleethorpes, North East Lincs., when she made the shock discovery on Saturday.
Daughter River Macrae was playing when she took her shoe off and Kimberley made the terrifying discovery.
Thankfully the syringe hadn't pierced the tot's skin but the concerned mum took her to hospital as there was blood around the needle.
When she raised it with staff at the resort, Kimberley was told the needle was for insulin - despite medics telling her it was a syringe issued to drug addicts, not diabetic.
The mum, from Hull, East Yorks, said: "We have been to Thorpe Park lots of times and it is usually clean.
"But when my daughter came in after playing she took her shoe off and I noticed the needle was hanging from the sole.
"I immediately took it to the office at the park.
"The cleaner was mortified but the woman in the office claimed it was a needle for insulin.
"She apologised but I asked her if she was going to do anything about it but she didn't.
"It was the cleaner who went out and checked the site.
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"I took the bairn to hospital and the doctor told me it wasn't a needle for diabetics but a needle issued to drug addicts.
"We stayed at the hospital for 12 hours while tests were carried out.
"The needle hadn't pierced River's skin, thankfully, but we were concerned she may have touched it as there was blood around the needle."
Kimberley said the family holiday was tainted by the shocking incident and they ended up cutting it short to spend 12 hours at the hospital.
She said: "I was horrified when I saw the needle. You don't expect that at a holiday park.
"River has had a lucky escape as she could have caught anything.
"My two sons Mackenzie, nine, and Mason, seven, were also out playing at the time.
"But it is used as a cut-through to the beach so it could have been dropped on the way."
A spokesman for Thorpe Park maintained they believe it was an insulin needle but declined to comment further.
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