Family receives gift of life after daughter’s tragic death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Days after a 12-year-old Louisville girl drowned in a swimming pool, the family of the deceased girl has been able to donate the girl’s organs to possibly save the life of another family member.

Local media report that Janyia Robinson died Sunday, five days after she was found unresponsive in the family’s backyard pool.

The family decided to donate the girl’s organs and soon after was notified of a match — Janyia Robinson’s cousin Deron Polk.

Struggling with diabetes for decades and kidney failure for three years, Polk this week received one of his cousin’s kidneys and her pancreas.

The girl’s mother Cuita Robinson told WLKY-TV (http://bit.ly/1LzNLSK ) that Polk had been hoping to find a transplant and she is jubilant that some good can come from her daughter’s tragic death.

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