‘Worst feeling in the world’: Mother cries after daughter drowns on trip to Florida
“It was supposed to be the best weekend ever,” Christine Marceline told FOX 35, describing a mother-daughter trip to Florida. Marceline’s daughter, Danielle, was celebrating her 18th birthday. The dream weekend has become this parent’s worst nightmare.
COCOA BEACH, Florida. – “It was supposed to be the best weekend ever,” Christine Marceline told FOX 35, describing a mother-daughter trip to Florida.
Marceline’s daughter, Danielle, was celebrating her 18th birthday. The dream weekend has become this parent’s worst nightmare.
It was the couple’s first trip to Florida. Over the weekend, Danielle, her mother, and some friends were at Cocoa Beach. Christine went back to the Airbnb to get some food. Danielle and a friend decided to go swimming in the ocean, and unfortunately that was the last time Christine saw her daughter alive.
“I walked and saw all the ambulances, her friend was in a chair with oxygen,” Marceline said. “I started running and screaming. It was horrible, the worst feeling in the world.”
Unfortunately, the strong rip currents over the weekend were too strong for Danielle. On Thursday, Christine said goodbye to her daughter. It’s something she said a mother shouldn’t have to do, but it was something she had to do.
“As a mom, I needed to hold my baby, kiss her, touch her, touch her hair,” she said, adding that the family was taking it one day at a time. “I needed this. I couldn’t wait for this.”
Two other families are also feeling the same kind of grief after a 50-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman drowned in the ocean this week in Brevard County.
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