That’s one of the biggest dangers of open water, is you can’t see the bottom.” “They’re great, they look beautiful but they can be dangerous. Retention ponds “are what we call an attractive nuisance,” the conservation officer said. Natural Resources is leading the investigation because the incident involves a body of water. Angela Goldman of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources’ law enforcement division says debris and sudden drop-offs make retention ponds very dangerous places to swim. Wednesday.Īmbulance crews took both girl to Riley Children’s Hospital, where one of them died. Firefighters pulled both girls from the water a little after 8 p.m. Investigators say they believe two preteen girls in the group took a wrong step and went underwater.
“I thought they had left, and then I saw that there were still shoes there, and I thought they were just being quiet on the other side of the tree,” she said. Delp says she heard them playing in the water for a while and then it got quiet. The group walked around a willow tree on the edge of her property, which kept her from seeing them clearly. She says the presence of a taller girl in the group initially made her think it was a group of children with their mother. Delp says she had seen the children involved once before in the neighborhood but had never seen them or anyone else in the retention pond until this week.ĭelp told News 8 she was reading on her patio Wednesday evening when saw the children walking along the bank behind her home. (WISH) - A witness to the drowning of a girl rescued Wednesday night from a retention pond said Thursday she will never look at the pond behind her home in the same way again.įor the past 25 years, Sally Delp and her family have lived in a home with a backyard that overlooks a retention pond. The coroner’s office did not additional information on the cause and manner of the girls’ deaths. LATEST: The two girls who died after being pulled from a Greenwood retention pond have been identified by the Marion County Coroner’s Office as 11-year-old Paw Lin and 13-year-old Rosia Mang.
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