From the way she talked about her daughter, it was clear the reality of the little girl’s death had not yet sunk in.
Until mom Jennifer Kagan started to look at the pictures of Keira’s short life.
Then came the tears.
“She was an angel,” said Kagan, a doctor with a specialty in family medicine. “She was my best friend, as well as my daughter. She was a great kid.”
The girl, who was to turn five in May, died in a strange plunge from the top of a peak at Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area on Sunday along with her biological father, Robin Brown.
Perhaps, the hardest part for this mom is her belief that it could have been prevented.
“It definitely could have been,” she said. “Keira did not have to die.”
Viater, a family lawyer, had been saying this from the minute Halton Regional Police broke the news that after an extensive search, officers had found the bodies of his stepdaughter and Brown.
“There was no reason for him to be hiking at Rattlesnake Point with our four-year-old daughter at all. This is not an activity they did together,” said Viater. “We suspect that he took her and jumped off the cliff to kill both her and himself.”
Viater said they have been battling Brown in court for many years.
“The system is fundamentally flawed,” he said. “We told everybody of the problems with this guy and nobody would listen. We have been fighting him over visitation rights and custody issues for a long time.”
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