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Kitchener teen killed by jetski in Mexico laid to rest last Monday

Melissa Murray
Kitchener Post staff

Since Camila Lopez?s funeral on Monday, her family has been visiting the cemetery and attending church, but they are also searching for justice.

While kayaking during a family vacation in Cancun, Mexico, Camila was fatally hit by a jetski.

The family has decided to look into a civil suit which would allege the resort they stayed at, the Now Jade Riviera in Cancun, was negligent in their actions. The family has acquired two lawyers in Mexico and is currently looking for one in Ontario.

?It was a terrible week,? Pilar Lopez, Camila?s sister, said in a telephone interview with the Post.

She said the only things the hotel offered the family were free long distance and local calls and a personal driver while they made arrangements for Camila to come home.

?They never said sorry for what had happened and they denied every single thing,? she said.

Going forward, Lopez said the family is hoping to prevent similar incidents and they want the resort to acknowledge their situation.

?We want the resort to take responsibility for what happened, but we realize no amount of money will bring her back. She died because they didn?t have the resources to help save her,? she said.

Lopez said they are trying to get back to normal life, while also going through the grieving process with family and close friends.

?We go to church and pray, but we try not to think of it too much. It?s devastating, not only for us, but for people in Kitchener and our family in Columbia.?

Lopez remembers her father Camilo coming into the hotel room on June 29 to tell her what had happened.

?He told me Camila was in a terrible accident. He said, ?I think my baby girl is dying.??

When Lopez rushed out of the hotel room she saw her sister lying in the sand covered in blood.

On the scene was an American nurse trying to help connect Camila to an oxygen tank, but the first was empty and the second only half full, Lopez said.

The hotel doctor arrived and started CPR, but the family alleges he performed compressions on her shoulder, not her chest.

After waiting 35 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, Camila and her parents were en route to the hospital. Lopez said it took between 40 and 45 minutes to get there.

Two minutes later, she and her family were told Camila had died.

The Now Jade Riviera did not return a request for comment.

Source: http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/news/lopez-family-considers-legal-action-against-mexican-resort/

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