Bravo to Disney for Replacing a Stolen Hippo Statue from a Child's Grave

Newsflash from your Hollywood Attorney:

 A Massachusetts mom was devastated after someone stole a dancing hippo statue from her young daughter's gravesite.

The statue had tremendous sentimental value to the family and was essentially irreplaceable, until a worker from Disney called.

Michelle Roderick lost her four-year-old daughter, Erin, in 2009 to brain cancer. Erin and her stuffed hippo were inseparable.

"Purple hippo was her best friend in the entire world," Roderick said. "It was with her from the time she was diagnosed at 10 months, to the time she passed away."

After Erin's death, her family places a dancing purple hippo from Disney's Fantasia on her grave, but it was recently stolen.

The family couldn't replace the statue because it's no longer being made. But after people found out about the theft, Roderick said calls and emails were sent to Disney.

The messaged worked, and Roderick got a call from Disney.

"They were able to locate the mold from the original statue that was made and they had one made especially for Erin," Roderick said. "It doesn't take the pain away from the original being stolen. I still want that one to come back, but this is a symbol tome of the good that's in the world."

Disney is finishing up the model, and will ship it to the Roderick family in the next two months.

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