Family of 18-month-old girl killed in cruise ship fall to return home

[Floyd R. Turbo]

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana couple whose 18-month-old daughter fell to her death Sunday from the 11th story of a cruise ship hope to return home Thursday from Puerto Rico on a flight also carrying their youngest child's body, an attorney for the family said.

Chloe Wiegand's parents, her two siblings and her two sets of grandparents planned to fly home Thursday to northern Indiana to arrange her funeral and grieve, said Michael Winkleman, a Miami-based attorney who's representing the family.

"Their singular goal right now is to get home and start working on funeral arrangements," he said Wednesday evening. "They're absolutely devastated. It's been a terrible 72 hours stuck in Puerto Rico and they're desperate to get home as soon as possible so they can grieve as a family."

He said the family hopes Chloe's body, which authorities have released to relatives, can also be on Thursday's return flight from San Juan to the U.S., but he said they were still working through red tape Wednesday to make sure that can happen.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/07/11/cruise-ship-death-family-18-month-old-who-died-headed-home-puerto-rico/1701650001/

[renate]

1. that poor family, and that poor grandfather

He made one dumb but human mistake and it will haunt him forever.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. A terrible thing.

It appears as though the family’s attorney is trying to set up a wrongful death suit against the cruise line.

[Karadeniz]

2. I do hope the grandfather can forgive himself.