“We know she is fully healed and experiencing the joy of being in His presence,” Annelise Camp’s family said

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• Annelise Camp, 2, was found at the bottom of a hotel pool on Memorial Day and was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital
• Her family pursued legal action to prevent the hospital from testing her to see if she was brain dead
• On Aug. 5, Annelise’s grandfather announced that the child was taken off life support and died

A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued to stop a Texas hospital from testing if she was brain dead following a Memorial Day drowning has been taken off life support and died, according to her family.

Steve Camp, Annelise Camp’s grandfather, confirmed her death in a social media post on Wednesday, Aug. 5.

“This past Monday [Aug. 3] Annelise was extubated, taking out the tubes, they kept her breathing these last ten weeks since her accidental drowning on Memorial Day,” he wrote. “When this procedure was done, she passed very quickly.”

“Thank you all for your prayers.. not only for her, but for her dear family Johnston and Joy her parents and for her siblings too,” he added.

A GoFundMe established for Annelise’s family also announced the child’s death.

“Annelise is now with Jesus,” the organizer wrote. “While our hearts are broken, we trust in His perfect love, His faithfulness, and His promises. We know she is fully healed and experiencing the joy of being in His presence.”

At the time of the incident, Johnston Camp, Annelise’s father, told local media that his family was visiting relatives on May 25 when the child somehow wandered away and was later found in a hotel pool by a cousin.

“She had water coming out of her mouth,” Camp, who performed CPR on his daughter, told ABC station KTRK on June 1.

It took about an hour for Annelise’s heartbeat to return, Camp told Fox station KRIV.

The girl was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. A fundraiser to help her family pay for medical expenses said that she was in intensive care on a ventilator.

According to court documents, the Camps didn’t want the hospital to test their child for brain death because they wanted additional time for her to recover, The Texas Tribune reported.

“If there’s that 1% chance or that 5% chance of results, we’re going to take it,” Johnston Camp told KRIV.

Under Texas law, brain death is defined as “irreversible cessation” of brain function, according to the Tribune. When a patient is declared brain dead, the hospital can remove life-saving measures.

In a statement shared with KRIV in early June, Texas Children’s said it had wanted to conduct testing to “help guide care and there are no imminent plans to end care regardless of results.”

Annelise was later transferred to a hospital in Louisiana, the Associated Press reported. In a July 13 update on GoFundMe, the family said that the child was showing “encouraging signs,” adding, “She is still fighting to live. She has not given up, and neither will we.”

Texas State Rep. Steve Toth, who has assisted the Camp family with their case, said that Annelise returned to Texas about a week ago and was being treated at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, according to The New York Times. No explanation was shared about why Annelise was taken off life support.

PEOPLE contacted Camp and Christus Health but did not receive immediate responses.

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In a statement shared with the Times, a spokesperson for Christus Health declined to comment due to patient privacy laws.

A celebration of Annelise’s life is scheduled to take place in Houston on Wednesday, Aug. 12, Camp said.

“Your continued prayers are more important now than ever as THE CAMPS face the days and weeks and months ahead of restoring their family to everyday life and all that it entails,” he wrote in his social media post.

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