The mother of a four-year-old boy who drowned when his father’s car slipped into a river has opened up about her torment.
Bentley Hilton died on Sunday afternoon after the ute he was sitting in slipped down a Hawkesbury River boat ramp and got swept away by a fast-flowing current.
His mother Lauren Hilton, who is separated from Bentley’s father and hadn’t seen her little boy since Mother’s Day, says she can’t stop reliving the horrific tragedy in her head.
“I tried to close my eyes last night and all I could see was him … wanting to get out, yelling out for help,” she told Nine News.
“When I found out, I was just so upset … I just broke down in tears, there was nothing more I could say. I loved him from the first time I met him.”
Bentley was strapped into his car seat in his dad’s ute while his dad and grandfather attempted to unhitch their tinnie when the car started sliding into the water.
Both men desperately tried to save the boy, but the car was completely submerged within seconds and dragged downstream where police divers eventually located it after a four-hour search.
The car Bentley was pulled from.
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