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A 14-month-old boy is one of the victims of Hurricane Florence, after his mother bypassed a roadblock and his car was washed away by floods, authorities said.
The sheriff of the Union County claims that Dazia Lee was in the small town of New Salem, North Carolina, while she was traveling from Charlotte to Wadesboro on Sunday night while she was driving around. traffic barrels. Her car was quickly washed into the water and thrown across a field and into a tree.
Lee managed to get out of the car and take his son, Kaiden Lee Welch, in his car seat, but she could not help herself and the toddler was lost in the water.
FEMA had sent a Miami diving team to the small town to help with potential water rescues and managed to rescue the mother almost immediately, but they had not found the child's body until Monday morning. They found Kaiden's body trapped between the bumper of her mother's car and the tree in which they had slammed.
The flood waters of Hurricane Florence
Lee told WCNC Charlotte: "He was my first and only child and now he just left. I do not even feel like a parent anymore – he just left.
At a press conference Monday afternoon, the sheriff told reporters, "It's a dangerous time, driving in the water when the roads are closed is dangerous. She was a stranger to this community that was driving on this road that she did not know, she skirted the barricades.
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Lee told the WCNC that she had seen other people cross the road safely and insists that someone moved the roadblock. "I want to know who moved the barricades – I lost my son because of that."
Floods of Hurricane Florence
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Florence dumped more than 10 inches in the Charlotte area over the weekend, forcing many coves in the area to leave their beds and close dozens of roads in the area.
The Road Patrol and Union County Sheriff's Department. Both agencies say that it is too early to know whether criminal proceedings will be initiated.
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Lee told WCNC that she was grateful that the rescuers were able to recover her son's body.
"The only thing … I'm glad they found it knowing he just left, I just wanted to see him one more time," she said.
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