kraftdinner
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posted on June 5, 2002 04:52:46 PM new
They reported this on CNN yesterday and I found it so strange...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/05/swimming.pool.boy/index.html
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Linda_K
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posted on June 5, 2002 04:59:27 PM new
The LA coroner ruled today that it was death by drowning....accidental.
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saabsister
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posted on June 5, 2002 05:16:52 PM new
kraftdinner, here's another bizarre story that happened in the DC 'burbs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60650-2002Jun4.html
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nycyn
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posted on June 5, 2002 05:18:32 PM new
This kid disappeared from a pool party, the are of which was searched, including the pool and they found his body in the pool two days later, right?
Sad.
Parents should donate their eggs and sperm to the equivalent of the Darwin Awards for research.
Read ths yesterday, and weirdly, I just rmembered that in one of my dreams there was a dirty pool.
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gravid
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posted on June 5, 2002 05:39:15 PM new
If it is late in the day - no pool lights and the area above is brighter than the pool area - especially if the water is a little cloudy - it can be near impossible to see in all the corners of a pool.
I bet nobody had a strong light like a diver uses to see well that would shine under the surface.
Sorry to say that still would have just made them find the body sooner. He was brain dead after 4 or 5 minutes in warm water.
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kraftdinner
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posted on June 5, 2002 05:41:41 PM new
I'm surprised they didn't show the pool. There is no way you could have missed anything in that pool. The liner was light and it was sunny. If it's an accident, it's a very strange one.
saabsister - as soon as you mentioned he was a religious person, my first thought was "oh no". I can't imagine what that little child went through. Some people just don't clue in enough to be parents.
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Borillar
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posted on June 7, 2002 12:11:15 AM new
I knew one family that bought a house with a back yeard pool. A child drowned in the pool the first year and then they put up a chain link fence all around it with a gate that swings shut by itself. Unfortunately, there were some family teens in charge one day and they left the gate propped open and another small child went into the pool and drowned. The family sold the house after that and never purchased another with a pool.
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Helenjw
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posted on June 7, 2002 06:59:09 AM new
All children should take swimming lessons until they are drown proof and can swim like a porpoise. Drowning is the second largest injury related reason for childhood death between the ages of 1 to 14.
Swimming lessons should be free for those children who cannot afford them. Twice as many black children drown simply because they don't have the funds or the opportunity to learn how to swim.
Helen
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auroranorth
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posted on June 7, 2002 08:01:40 PM new
helen, where does tht statictic come from ?
whatever happened to parental responsibility ?
I'm really bothered by that first look that did not see the child in the pool, was the child sexually abused then killed to cover it up ?
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Helenjw
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posted on June 7, 2002 08:21:57 PM new
Auroranorth
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statictics are from the CDC link above.
I don't know the answers to your other questions.
Helen
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auroranorth
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posted on June 7, 2002 08:31:16 PM new
The cdc needs to knock off the political agenda and stick to soemthing they have not been doing. Portecting this nation from disease like smallpox.
the statistic is meanlingless with out background data.
I'm not being insensative here, what I am saying is that to cure a problem you have to know how it occurs.
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