GENADENDAL \u2013 \u201cOm te dink jy het uit jou huis gegaan met al vyf kinders, dan keer jy met net vier terug. Dit breek \u2019n mens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 s\u00ea Ricardo van Wyk, wie se oudste dogter, Viola Moodien (16), Woensdag 12 Januarie tydens \u2019n familie-uitstappie verdrink het. Die gesin het laatmiddag by die stroom wat verby Emil Weder Sekond\u00ear verbyloop, gaan uitspan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op pad terug huis toe het Viola en haar broer Joshua Tarin besluit om by \u201cDie Pompie\u201d weer in die water te duik terwyl hul ouers van die wal af toegekyk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns was so 10 meter van hulle af weg,\u201d vertel Ricardo. \u201cEk het begin panic <\/i>toe Joshua kort daarna vra waar is Viola. Ek het gedink en gehoop sy prank <\/i>ons net.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ricardo en sy seuns het toe in die water gespring om na Viola te soek, maar hulle kon geen teken van haar kry nie, vermoedelik omdat die water te diep was nadat die gebied Sondag oorstroom het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Ricardo het EMS-reddingsdienste opgedaag, maar omdat hulle nie die nodige toerusting gehad het nie, kon hulle nie Viola se liggaam uit die water kry nie. Polisieduikers het later daarin geslaag om Viola se liggaam aan wal te bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVan wat ons kan aflei,\u201d s\u00ea Ricardo, \u201cmoes sy haar kop gestamp het, want daar was \u2019n hou by haar linkeroog. Sy was seker bewusteloos en daarom kon sy nie weer opkom nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was die hartseerste dag van ons lewe. Ons het al die jare in die Kaap gebly en twee jaar gelede Genadendal toe getrek om \u2019n nuwe lewe hier te begin, maar toe verloor my dogter haar lewe hier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy beskryf sy oudste as \u2019n lewenslustige en spontane mens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy was my steunpilaar. So baie mense het na ons toe gekom om te s\u00ea dat sy diep in hul harte gekruip het,\u201d vertel Ricardo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Woordvoerder van die Genadendal-polisie het bevestig geen misdaad word vermoed nie. \u2019n Geregtelike doodsondersoek is ingestel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enigeen wat die familie kan bystaan deur verversings vir die begrafnis en gedenkdiens te skenk, kan Ricardo van Wyk by 065 608 7489 of (slegs WhatsApp) 083 504 0524 kontak..<\/span> Nog \u2019n persoon het die afgelope naweek in Grabouw verdrink. John Michels, die onderburgemeester van die Theewaterskloof-munisipaliteit, het op sy Facebookblad gedeel dat hy die tweede keer in \u2019n week saam met bedroefde ouers en familie op \u2019n wal moes sit en wag vir iemand wat verdrink het om uitgehaal te word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Op 16 Januarie het hy die volgende gedeel: \u201cVandag was \u2019n baie emosionele dag. Die kind wat verdrink het, is gevind. As geharde duikers saam met die ouers huil, dan moet dit ons \u2019n idee gee hoe emosioneel dit op die toneel was. Hierdie duikers is helde. Terwyl hulle geduik het, het hulle vir my op \u2019n skerm gewys hoe dit onder die water lyk. Dit is pikdonker, en al wat die duikers kon doen, was om onder die water te swem met die hoop dat hulle teen iets sal vasswem. En dit is ook hoe hierdie seun gevind is. Dankie aan hierdie duikers. Mag God ook met hierdie bedroefde familie deur hierdie moeilike tyd gaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kapt. Raldeen Atson, die Grabouw-polisie se woordvoerder, s\u00ea die 19-jarige jong man het saam met vier vriende by die High Rising-dam gaan swem toe hy in die moeilikheid beland het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPolisieduikers het die seun se liggaam Sondag in die water gevind. Geen misdaad word vermoed nie en \u2019n geregtelike doodsondersoek is ingestel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die Nasionale Seereddingsinstituut (NSRI) gee die volgende wenke as jy wil gaan swem:.<\/span> Swem net by strande waar menseredders aan diens is;.<\/span> Moenie alkohol gebruik as jy gaan swem nie; .<\/span> Moet nooit alleen gaan swem nie. Swem altyd saam met iemand;.<\/span> Volwasse toesig is noodsaaklik. 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