Parents Hope Soccer Net Bill Will Prevent Deaths of More Children

Parents Hope Soccer Net Bill Will Prevent Deaths of More Children
Youth soccer players move a net into position at Centennial Park in Toronto on May 25, 2023. The Canadian Press/Liam Casey
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When David Mills got a call in May of 2017 that his 15-year-old son had been gravely injured on a soccer field, he struggled to grasp what could have gone so seriously wrong, unaware at that time of the dangers of unanchored nets.

“As I got closer to the hospital, I began to pray out loud, it was pretty basic and primal: ‘Please God, please God, please, please, please, please, please God, please God, please, please, please,’” he recounted Thursday to an Ontario legislative committee.