Two 14 Year-Old Girls Electrocuted and Killed in Illinois Corn Field

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Hannah and Jade were supposed to be starting their first week as freshman at Sterling High School in Sterling, Illinois. However, a tragic event in late July ended the girls' lives. Hannah and Jade were working in the Illinois corn fields as detasselers. A common summer job for teens and migrant workers, it was considered by many as a rite of passage in corn country. Accounts of the tragic accident differ; some detasslers that were in the field say that the electricity traveled through a puddle of water others say that one of the girls touched an electrified center pivot irrigator. It is clear that the irrigator caused the electrocution, but what is not clear is who is responsible. The landowner, farmer leasing the land, Monsanto, ComEd are all potentially liable according to the legal theories that the girls' attorneys are pursuing.

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