Athéna Gervais drowning: Coroner comes down hard on alcohol marketed to kids
When Athéna Gervais, a well-liked, active 14-year-old with no history of heavy drinking, popped into the dépanneur near her Laval high school during lunch last year in late February, she had a choice of at least seven different varieties of alcoholic beverages.
“It is unlikely that a person in control of themselves and familiar with a certain path would have decided to take such an inaccessible route and not be able to get up out of that small amount of water,” coroner Martin Larocque wrote. “What must be taken from the death of Athéna Gervais is that it is imperative that steps be taken to prevent the inherent dangers of excessive alcohol consumption, for minors as well as young adults,” the coroner wrote.
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