{"id":204137,"date":"2026-03-24T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:01:17","slug":"we-miss-her-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204137\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We miss her so much\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 24, 2026 at 12:39 PM<\/p>\n<p>Family expected to file lawsuit after girl, 4, drowns in pool at NE Miami-Dade rental home <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A mother is speaking out after authorities said her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/05\/mdso-girl-4-drowns-in-northeast-miami-dade-pool\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/05\/mdso-girl-4-drowns-in-northeast-miami-dade-pool\/\"> 4-year-old daughter drowned in a backyard pool at a short-term rental home<\/a> in northeast Miami-Dade earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened on March 5 at a home in the 20200 block of Northeast 15th Avenue, in the county\u2019s Ives Estates area, where Kennedi Ray and her family had been staying while visiting from Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI lost my child. I lost my 4-year-old. She only got four years here. We loved her so much. We miss her so much,\u201d Adeanah Francis, Kennedi\u2019s mother, said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adam Finkel, the family\u2019s attorney, said Kennedi was able to get outside while others in the home were sleeping. She was later found in the pool and did not survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA child got access to the backyard. No alarm went off, no barriers are there, and we lost Kennedi,\u201d he said. \u201cThe law requires safety measures in place, barriers, alarms, the exact type of simple things that keep Kennedi with us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Local 10 reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/Statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=0500-0599\/0515\/0515.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/Statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=0500-0599\/0515\/0515.html\" target=\"_blank\">Florida\u2019s Residential and Pool Safety Act<\/a>, which requires residential pools to have safety features such as barriers, fences, or self-closing gates to help prevent young children from accessing the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Francis said she hopes no other parent has to endure the same pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am a mother. I don\u2019t want any one of you to go through this pain,\u201d she said while in tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Finkle says Kennedi\u2019s family is expected to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 24, 2026 at 12:39 PM Family expected to file lawsuit after girl, 4, drowns in pool at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-204137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}