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Girl Suffers Electric Shock at Siem Reap Pool, Parents Say
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Former Davenport girl survives electric shock in Cambodia

Linda Cook 2 hrs ago

A former Davenport girl who is visiting family and friends in Davenport continues to recover after she was critically injured by an electric shock in a swimming pool in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Jade Miller, 9, is visiting Davenport where her grandmother, Helen DeKalb, lives. Jade’s mother, Meredith (DeKalb) Miller, attended Eisenhower Elementary School and graduated from Davenport Central. Jade attended McKinley Elementary School for first grade.

Jade’s father, Simon Miller, 51, is a British citizen. The family lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where Meredith Miller is a forensic document examiner and her husband builds and renovates properties.

In July, Meredith Miller wanted to take Jade to visit Angkor Wat, a temple complex in Cambodia, with some friends, she said.

Jade and a friend were swimming in the hotel pool, Miller said, and she told the pair to get ready to leave the pool. She then went into the nearby restroom.

“I go into the restroom, come back out, and I see Jade lying up on this platform at the end of the pool. It has this waterfall feature that goes over it and is a few feet higher than the swimming pool," she remembered.

“She’s just laying there. I’m getting kind of angry at her,” Miller recounted. She said she told her daughter to get up, but Jade’s friend said when she touched Jade’s foot, she felt a shock.

Miller pulled her daughter off the platform and placed her in a sun bed and started calling for help. “I could feel energy going through her,” Miller said. “I didn’t know if she was alive or dead."

As Jade was taken in a van to a hospital about 20 minutes away, she began to scream.

“That’s all she’s doing with every breath, is this piercing scream,” Miller said.

Miller saw huge burns on Jade’s leg, but her heart condition was even more serious, Miller said. Jade spent the night in the emergency room, but was later airlifted to Bangkok Hospital in Thailand.

Hotel staff told the family Jade was in a restricted area of the pool after it closed, and maintained the injury was caused by heat from lamps, Miller said.

“There were lights on this waterfall feature and there was electricity running through a cord,” Miller said. “I think her knee touched one of the wires. She got that power source through her leg. She had an entry point in her knee and an exit point where the energy came out of her leg. She became part of the circuit.”

“She remembers climbing up on this waterfall feature thing,” Miller said. “She remembers her knee touching the wire. She remembers vibrating.”

Since the incident, which occurred July 21, Jade has undergone two skin-graft surgeries and is recovering well, her mother said.

The Millers hope to raise awareness of safety concerns around hotel swimming pools, especially in countries where safety standards might not be the same as in the United States.

“She just got into another hotel swimming pool before we got here,” Miller said. “She looked around for any dangers or lights. She always looks for lights or wires that might be in the water.”

Even in the United States, people should be safety-conscious, she said.

Miller believes Jade survived partly because she found her so quickly. Although she felt the current, “I had put on my rubber-soled flip-flops. I was standing on dry ground when I reached over to pull her off. I was grounded on a different platform that was dry.”

An incident like Jade experienced “really puts your life in perspective,” Miller said.
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