2 parents get lifesaving awards for actions after C.B.S. soccer stabbing
The Canadian Red Cross is recognizing two bystanders for providing first aid to a boy who was stabbed in the neck on a soccer field in Conception Bay South in 2014.
Gerry Stead and Alana Langdon will be given Rescuer Awards for performing CPR and first aid until paramedics arrived.
A soccer player, who was 11 at the time, was stabbed in the neck during an evening soccer camp on Sept. 25.
Stead, a parent of another player, and Langdon, a parent of another player and also a nurse, helped save the boy's life, the Red Cross said in a release.
They will be receiving their awards at a ceremony in St. John's on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
The boy has required several surgeries over the last 16 months, the Red Cross said, but has physically recovered from the stabbing and is again playing soccer,
Nicholas Layman was charged with attempted murder, but last year was found not criminally responsible for the stabbing.
