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May 19, 2011 | 44 Pages
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Drowned girl had a love for swimming Inquest into 2008 death of Morgan’s Grant child starts WEB CONTEST West Ottawa Soccer asks for community’s help to win $100,000 online prize.
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A young girl who drowned in a Kanata wave pool in 2008 loved swimming and was set to take lessons. At the outset of a coroner’s inquest into eight-yearold Edine Ilunga’s drowning death on Oct. 19, 2008, the deceased girl’s father painted a picture of a girl who was happy and comfortable in the water, if not a very skilled swimmer. Edward Ilunga said his children, including Edine, often swam in a pool at the family’s apartment building four years before the girl’s death, and when the family travelled the children always asked to stay at a hotel with a pool. But Edward Ilunga couldn’t say that his daughter could swim in deep water, or swim across a pool. She was enrolled to begin taking swimming lessons after her death. Edine Ilunga was attending the birthday party of a friend at the Kanata Leisure Centre and Wave Pool, a city-owned facility. Edward Ilunga recounted the circumstances surrounding the evening of his daughters’ drowning during the first day of the inquest, which was expected to last approximately five days. He said he knew there was a possibility of Edine going into the water during the party, but noted that the child had attended other parties at community centres with pools and there is no swimming. INQUEST, page 4
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