Teen-age girl drowns in Lynn's Flax Pond Mother watched helplessly from shore

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 6, 1993| Author: Marla R. Van Schuyver and Stephen Power, Contributing Reporters | Copyright information

A Lynn teen-ager drowned last night at Flax Pond as her mother, who cannot swim, watched helplessly. In another of the weekend's numerous tragedies, a Peabody man on a canoe excursion at Bartholomew Pond also drowned.

The body of Scarlett Diaz, 15, was found in about 12 feet of water at the Lynn pond, where she drowned about 20 feet from shore.

Despite rescue workers' efforts to resuscitate Diaz, she was pronounced dead upon arrival at Union Hospital at 4:18 p.m.

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