Grief-stricken Renise Young, mother of Taya, 4, and Patricia, 3, who drowned in a backyard pool on Tuesday (November 1), thinks living in a house with a pool is dangerous if you have young children.
“My advice to any mother and any family out there is to not own a house with a pool,” Ms Young said.
“No matter how old the kids are and how well you think you are looking after them – it is so dangerous.”
The sisters were dragged unresponsive from a backyard pool in the Logan suburb of Kingston. The girls had gone missing straight after lunch and it was their five-year-old brother who raised the alarm.
Parents Renise and Troy tried unsuccessfully to revive them as they waited for paramedics to arrive.
She has since told The Courier Mail that she believes the girls used furniture to climb over the pool fence.
“They brought one of the chairs from their own table and chair set and used that to climb over,” she said.
