A parenting influencer in Georgia announced this week that his daughter drowned in a swimming pool.
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Jamal Morton, 33, shared images on social media of his 2-year-old daughter, Sadé Rose, along with a heartfelt message remembering her as “the best daughter a father could ever ask for.”
Morton, also known as J’Amore, wrote on a GoFundMe page: “I lost my daughter. She thought she was a big girl and could swim all by herself. She walked out of the house and got into the pool, where she drowned.”
“Losing a child is a pain I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy,” he continued.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office told NBC News in a statement Thursday its deputies responded to a home in Hoschton on Sunday and confirmed “there was a death at the residence, which appears to be accidental in nature.”
Morton shared a video of Sadé Rose with a text overlay that read “RIP” to his 1.1 million TikTok followers Tuesday.
She is smiling and leaning over her Peppa Pig-themed cake to blow out the candles on her second birthday.
Morton added that he hated posting the image and that his followers would not be seeing him for a while, as he has to take a break.
“I hope heaven is real because I can’t imagine you being all alone by yourself. So God, if you’re real, please watch over my baby. Rest in peace, my sweet angel. Daddy loves you forever, Rose.”
The TikTok video, and another announcement on Instagram with photos and videos of Sadé Rose, have since been deleted. The GoFundMe campaign has also been taken down. A Facebook post with the announcement remained up.
Representatives for Morton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Morton’s management team said in a statement Wednesday on Facebook that he would no longer be posting or responding to messages. The management team will take over his platforms “while he and his family take time to grieve the heartbreaking loss of their baby girl.”
In the statement on the now-deleted GoFundMe fundraiser, Morton wrote, “Please send us home.”
“We have to move away because we can’t live in that house anymore, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to work anytime soon,” he said.
Morton makes comedy skits and other family-themed pieces of content for millions of viewers. In addition to his TikTok audience, he has over 2.5 million followers on Instagram and 2.3 million on Facebook.
