A HEAVILY intoxicated woman caused the drowning death of a four-year-old girl when she capsized a kayak they were fishing from off Mallabula Point last year, Newcastle Local Court has heard.
Tamarah Eaton, 36, and the young girl had never met before they were paired up in a kayak in a protected waterway on the southern shore of the Karauh River on June 1 last year. But Eaton had in the early hours of that morning consumed a large amount of alcohol and at some point between 1.36pm and 1.58pm was trying to navigate back to shore when the kayak overturned.
