Drowning victims’ father out to protect others
SUN PHOTO BY BILL JONES
Rena Padgett holds her year-old daughter, Olivia, as she views the pool barrier system installed in her Port Charlotte home by the Just Against Children Drowning foundation.
SUN PHOTO BY BILL JONES
Rena Padgett holds her year-old daughter, Olivia, as she views the pool barrier system installed in her Port Charlotte home by the Just Against Children Drowning foundation.
Joshua and Christian DeMello, age not quite 13 months, flanked by their grief-stricken family, were laid to rest three years ago today during a somber morning ceremony in the stillness of a Port Charlotte cemetery off Forrest Nelson Boulevard.
The twins died tragically after falling into a swimming pool without a baby barrier system at their grandmother’s home in Port Charlotte.