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'The day my daughter drowned in the bath will forever be etched in my memory'
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It was a Saturday morning and Faye Smith was enjoying breakfast with her two children. Just 30 minutes later, one of them was gone.
The sight of her daughter Gabi lying face down in six inches of water will haunt her for the rest of her life.
The 12-year-old had only gone for a bath. But a friend, who had slept over the night before, noticed she was taking an unusually long time.
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The pal alerted Faye whose blood immediately ran cold. “Gabi, I need you to answer me darling,” she shouted as she rattled the locked door handle. “If you don’t answer, I’m breaking the door down.”
The mum was met with silence. Within seconds, Faye had kicked the door in with such force it sent bolts flying into the air.
The unimaginable horrors that awaited her behind that piece of wood will forever be etched in her memory.
Gabi was lying six inches below the water line and she was unresponsive. Faye frantically called her name as she attempted to drag her out of the tub.
Once on the floor, Faye tried to resuscitate her daughter’s lifeless body while her older brother Zach, now 26, called paramedics.
“Their lack of haste told me everything,” Faye said. “At the hospital there was a team of around 10 medical staff who all worked on her.
“You stand there in the room watching and then, at an invisible signal, they all leave and it’s just you and the main doctor. He was the one who told me she’d gone, which I already knew. It was agony.”
The coroner ruled that Gabi had drowned during the incident on March 16, 2013. The young girl had suffered a seizure which doctors say was likely caused by the trauma of losing her father two years earlier.
Faye, 56, says the
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