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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 GALS still swinging after 25 years Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010 A School Like No Other Preschool - Grade 8 905-257-0022 www.fernhillschool.com PRINTER EMPTY? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Upper Oakville Shopping Centre 905-842-5600 www.thinkrefill.ca refill A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 66 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) `I'm so low, I'm hurting' Sara Carlin's text to boyfriend two days before her suicide By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF More clues about Sara Carlin's state of mind during her final days of life surfaced Wednesday during the third day of a Coroner's inquest into the death of the 18-year-old Oakville woman. Sara, a graduate of St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School, hanged herself in her parent's basement on Sunday, May 6, 2007. At the time Sara had been taking Paxil, a powerful anti-depressant, for which Health Canada has issued advisories due to the possible increased risk of suicidal events in children and adolescents who take it. Throughout the inquest, Gary Will, lawyer for the Carlin family, has attempted to link Sara's introduction to the drug in February 2006 to her downward spiral of outof-control behavior, which ended with her death. Lawyers for Paxil manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, three doctors who ERIC RIEHL / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER GETTING READY: Kathleen Finnegan and Julian Rotenberg sort through some of the many items being sold at a garage sale for Julian, whose mother, Susie Rotenberg, died on May 15. Money raised from the garage sale will be put towards an educational trust fund for Julian. Community holds sale to support bereaved child By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Sara Carlin put Sara on Paxil, and the Coroner's council have suggested other reasons behind her suicide. The inquest has been called by the Ontario Coroner's Office to examine the events surrounding Sara's death to determine if it was preventable and what recommendations, if any, can be made See Sara page 3 Julian Rotenberg was his mother's pride and joy right until the very end. The 13-year-old was a constant topic of discussion for Susie Rotenberg, a single Oakville mother, and continued to be until the day when she suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on May 15. "The day that Susie went into the hospital, I ran into her beside her car, and she just glowed about Julian and his recent adventure with Dreams Take Flight," said Kathleen Finnegan, a close family friend and neighbour. Julian was one of the selected individuals to go to Disney Land in Florida for a day. "That day she was flipping through her camera phone and bragging and bragging about this child," Finnegan said. "She was just so proud of him in everything he did." Susie had a lifelong battle with Factor XI (11) Deficiency, also known as Hemophilia C, for which she needed regular treatments. In mid-May she was complaining of a back pain. Due to the severity of the pain she went to the hospital on a Friday evening and it turned out that she had a kidney infection, which was complicated further because of her medical condition. "The kidney infection just went into her bloodstream and that was it. There was no way they could get it out of her See Garage page 7