‘It should never have happened’: Electric shock victim Denishar Woods' road to recovery

A long, painful rehabilitation awaits Denishar Woods, the 11-year-old girl who received an electric shock at her family’s public housing home.

Denishar Woods has suffered a life changing brain injury after the electric shock. Source: Supplied

In addition to being a single mother-of-eight living on welfare payments, Lacey Harrison faces a future being a full-time carer.

 It has been four months since her 11-year-old daughter Denishar volunteered to turn off the metal garden tap at the family’s public housing home in Perth and received an electric shock that stopped her heart. She was electrocuted with up to 230 volts of electricity, which caused a catastrophic brain injury.

‘It should never have happened’

Denishar's mum has now taken on the role as her full-time carer. Source: Supplied

Denishar was medically dead, revived in hospital, and not expected to live. Ms Harrison was told if her daughter did survive she would likely remain in a vegetative state. Instead, the young girl has begun the long road to recovery.

“This accident is an accident that should have never happened, it should have never ever happened,” Ms Harrison told NITV’s The Point.

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