This story is gut-wrenching at how easily it could have been avoided.
Four-year-old twin girls have both died after a drowning accident in their backyard pool at 25 Endicott Street in Brockton Saturday morning.
A sad story, and sadder still how common this tragedy is. But this turns my stomach.
The Department of Children and Families has confirmed that they are investigating this tragedy saying concerns over the children’s welfare have been reported. Apparently a report was filed Saturday against one or both of the parents of the home for abuse and neglect.
Neighbors say a similar incident happened in this same pool a couple summers ago when one of the parent’s three children fell into the pool. She was given CPR and taken to the hospital for the night….FOX 25 has been told the pool is unused and sometimes green and murky.
We actually had a drowning in my extended family of a small child who managed to fall into a family member’s pool. Its very sad indeed, but this was a pool that was at least being actively used, and the first incident of this kind I’ve heard of.
These parents got their scare, and they did NOTHING. When we bought our house it had an above-ground pool in the back yard. It wasn’t in great shape, nor was it a very nice pool, but no matter what, here in New England outdoor pool season is generally July and August, with maybe a warm week or two in June an September. That’s hardly worth the work of keeping a pool safe and clean, so I rented a dumpster, chopped it up and had it hauled away (Took maybe 8 hours of solid work all by myself ). The pool in this case appears to be in-ground, which is a bit more difficult to remove, or fill in, but if they weren’t using it, and they already saw how easily a child could drown in it, why didn’t they do that?
I own a LOT of guns, but I’m also a logical man and relized a pool would be the WORST thing for my home.
In 2007, of all children 1 to 4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, almost 30% died from drowning.1 Although drowning rates have slowly declined,1,3 fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years.
The first is falls, guns aren’t even in the picture.
For even more scariness I was surprised to find out this is a recent story, as eerily similar event happened a few weeks ago Again twin girls, but as far as I can tell this was an actively used pool with a pool cover (not sure what kind of cover was used, but some pool covers can be just as dangerous as the water beneath them).
Horrible stories, the lot of them.
There are many pools in Las Vegas, just about all of them in-ground. None I personally saw lacked a security/safety fence with a gate that was ALWAYS locked, for just this reason. Of course, there are the others, and every year, some kids die due to their parents’ stupidity. Another horrific child-killer in Vegas is when babies or toddlers are “forgotten” in the car during the summer. It doesn’t take long for them to die. 🙁
The pool where my cousin died was fully enclosed. Don’t know all the details on how it happened (frankly it caused a huge family stir and rift as you might expect) so I’ll likely never know, but any means of security can be sidestepped or overlooked. Knowing what I do, I suspect a door was left unlocked and the kid got out of sight for just long enough.
It does NOT take long at all.
It does NOT take long at all.
No kidding. My nephew went head 1st into the hot tub the other day while his mother and I were there. I was able to get to him quickly and pull him out but it was still scary.
Another cousin grew up on a lake, he was maybe two when he took a step off the edge of the dock. All I heard was a single splash (that was actually 2) and looked over to see my Uncle and Cousin sitting on the dock soaking wet, his eyes filled with terror.
He’s now in the Merchant marines, and swims like a bullet. But when he was small he always had a close eye, and often a life jacket on.
And it doesn’t even have to be a pool for accidents
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/02/chief-teens-drown-red-river-shreveport-la-crews-searching/
In all, six teenagers tried to save DeKendrix — and each other — but none could swim. Their relatives, all nonswimmers, looked on helplessly as the teens screamed out for help. Six vanished and drowned Monday; DeKendrix was rescued by a bystander.
Now contrast that story with what would happen if parents let kids go out shooting firearms if none of the parents knew anything about firearm safety!!
It was irresponsible behavior on the families part — my sympathy is with them but it doesn’t change the fact — that the parents were responsible for the lives of those children.
Of course, being the Left Stream Media — the deaths are blamed on racism.
Good Lord! How does anybody grow up in this modern world without knowing how to swim???
Made sense with the old-school Maine fishermen, the Ocean water was COLD year-round. But down South where the Ocean is the temperature of a freshly drawn bath, and lakes and ponds are even warmer????
You don’t need to be able to do the 200 meter Butterfly (Good lord, I was barely able to as a ripped teenager) but damn I was treading water at age 4!
I learned to swim in a municipal pool, but there were tons of public swimming areas that were free to access.
Stupid story!