Police have shared more details about how a five-year-old girl fell overboard while on a Disney cruise ship on its way back to South Florida in June.

The alarming moment turned into a harrowing rescue after the girl’s father leapt into the ocean to save his daughter on June 29. Both father and daughter were pulled from the water by a Disney rescue team.

In a police report obtained by People magazine , authorities said the girl’s mother encouraged the five-year-old to get up on the railing of the ship and pose for a photo in an open porthole before she went overboard.

The report, released by Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office, stated that the family was walking on the fourth deck of the ship when “they stopped to take a photo of the daughter.”

The mother allegedly “pointed

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