The 5-year-old girl who plunged 50 feet into the ocean after tumbling backward off a Disney cruise ship was too “small” to trigger the vessel’s man-overboard sensors, Florida authorities alleged.

The crucial alarms aboard the Disney Dream didn’t sound until seconds later when the young girl’s father heroically leapt after her as the ship was returning to Florida from the Bahamas on June 29, according to a shocking new report released by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, People reported.

The little girl was walking with her family on the fourth deck when her mother allegedly asked her to pose on a railing in front of an open porthole, Detective Christopher Favitta wrote in the report. 3

She lost her balance and plunged into the water below at 11:29 a.m., but her “small body

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