Five years after Olivia Xu and Elmer Zhang’s son Nelson suffered a brain injury – he was found laying on a concrete path at his early childhood centre, the couple are still in the dark about what happened and what caused the injury.
Did he slip on an icy path? they wonder. Did another child push him?
They’ll probably never know what happened.
The two teachers who were on duty in the playground of the under 2-year-old area at the Centre that freezing morning on July 27, 2020 told investigators they did not see Nelson fall because they were busy with other children.
The couple have spent $60,000 on lawyers to try to get more information about the circumstances that led up to their then-14-month-old son being in a critical condition.
They’ve been told that their only option now would be to hire a private detective.
Emotions are still raw for Xu when she recalls rushing to Nelson’s daycare after being told he’d been injured, and seeing her little boy, who had been well when she dropped him off less than an hour earlier, lying on a nappy change mat unresponsive as one of his teachers administered first aid.