‘Your daughter is beautiful’: Mum touched by a man complimenting her little girl with Down Syndrome

Pam De Almeida is used to strangers whispering and staring at her 18-month-old daughter Sophia. 

The little girl has Down Syndrome and her mum says people often stare, oblivious to the fact that she often stares right back.

But recently a couple approached her. The man greeted Sophia with a high five and a handshake.

As Pam writes on her Facebook page, Slice of Life: 'He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "I have a story I would really like to share with you. But I am afraid I won’t get through it without choking up.” 

'I gently encouraged him to share, because now I was curious. This interaction was not what I was expecting,’ wrote Pam.

'He told me that he had watched the news last night. There was an interview of a mother who had recently given birth to a child with a major disability. She was on the news defending her decision to keep her baby.

'She was defending her choice NOT to terminate despite her doctors encouraging her to do so.’