WHITELAND, Ind. (Gray News) - A county prosecutor in Indiana says his office has currently found no criminal laws were broken by school employees in the drowning death of a 15-year-old student earlier this year.

Alaina Dildine loved so many things. Sloths, flamingoes, Stitch, band, Marvel movies.

Her parents, Kyle and Victoria Dildine, say she lit up every room she walked into. She was persistent. She loved learning. She wanted to make everyone she met feel important. She was a typical kid and teenager, they said.

“She loved to make people feel important,” Victoria Dildine said. “A lot of times her teachers would tell us that she would pick that kid who didn’t have a partner, or she would pick that kid who really was struggling in class, and she would you know, she would she would help them she would befriend them.”

Alaina, at the age of 15, died on May 16 after she drowned in the Whiteland Community High School pool during swim class. She was underwater for 52 minutes before she was pulled out of the pool. The Johnson County Coroner’s Office ruled her death an accident on May 30, and said she died from drowning after having a seizure.

Three months later, Kyle and Victoria Dildine continue to mourn their daughter, and they have been calling for changes to be made to Clark-Pleasant’s pool protocols. They believe their daughter’s death was a preventable tragedy.

“When any parent, when they send their kid to somewhere, especially at school, you’d never think that this would happen — period,” Kyle Dildine said.

“Alaina tried so hard to go out of her way for other people,” Victoria Dildine said. “And the moment when she needed somebody to watch out for her, nobody was there and nobody did that for her.”

WHITELAND, Ind. — The mother of a 15-year-old high school student who drowned in a swimming pool during physical education class demands the school board take action.

Alaina Dildine was the identified student who drowned during a P.E. class at Whiteland High School in May. The coroner’s office ruled Didline’s death as accidental by seizure and drowning.

At a Clark Pleasant School Corporation board meeting on Tuesday, Alaina’s mother, Victoria Dildine, called for the gym teacher to be fired, stating that the teacher failed to keep the kids safe.

WHITELAND, Ind. — Around 80 people with candles in hand, some with signs, stood around a photo of Alaina Dildine wrapped in a purple ribbon Thursday.

The 15-year-old girl died May 16, 2023, after being pulled from the swimming pool at Whiteland Community High School.

Classmates shared some of their favorite moments with Alaina — even if it was tripping in the hallway.

Alaina Dildine, a 15-year-old student who was pronounced dead after being pulled from the Whiteland Community High School pool on May 16, was underwater for 52 minutes before her body was found by another student.

Her cause of death was ruled to be drowning following a seizure. Autopsy findings show the drowning was an accident and she had a history of epilepsy, a seizure disorder.

The Johnson County Sheriff revealed information from the investigation Monday, including a timeline of events.

The Johnson County Prosecutor's office determined no criminal laws were violated by school employees, saying it is not the office's role to determine whether negligence from school officials occurred. That is a job for the civil justice system, the prosecutor said in a press release.

Kyle and Victoria Dildine, the parents of 15-year-old Alaina Dildine, are suing Clark-Pleasant Community School Corp., Whiteland Community High School, Superintendent Tim Edsell, former physical education teacher Jana Huffman and former instructional assistant and lifeguard Patrick Schaler seeking damages. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Clark-Pleasant and its employees violated federal civil rights laws by failing to accommodate Alaina Dildine’s disability, epilepsy. The Dildines are also asserting a state law claim for the wrongful death of their daughter, accusing them of negligence.

JOHNSON COUNTY — The family of a student who drowned during gym class at Whiteland Community High School has filed a lawsuit against the district, school and staff.

WHITELAND, Ind. — The family of a 15-year-old student who drowned in a Whiteland Community High School pool has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the district, school and staff ignored repeated signs of negligence in the days leading up to the fatal drowning.

WHITELAND, Ind. — The family of the student who drowned at the Whiteland Community High School pool is filing a federal lawsuit against the district, school and staff.