Recent Posts in Child Drowning Accident Category
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 By
Last month a 4-year-old-boy was pulled from the Roosevelt Outdoor Pool by a lifeguard. According to witnesses the boy’s body was “lifeless and limp.” The boy died at a local hospital ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
The names of drowning victims who died in boating accidents on the Fourth of July weekend in Waupaca County, Wisconsin were released recently, according to reports. Daniel Nolan, 57, of Manawa WI ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Pennsylvania authorities shut down three different day care facilities in western Pennsylvania after a seven-year-old boy nearly drowned. The boy, who nearly drowned during an overnight camping trip, ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A 15-year-old boy drowned after being pulled from a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, reports say. Emergency services were called earlier this month regarding a possible ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A 30-year-old woman accused of drowning her two-and-a-half-year old daughter has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial, reports say. The woman, Claudia Andrea Pedreros, is accused of murder in ...
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Posted on Jul 30, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A dive team recovered the body of a four-year-old girl who had been last spotted at the edge of the water at Monterey's County Nacimiento Lake on Sunday, July 3. The girl, Araceli Garcia of ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A boy on the beach at Sandy Point State Park in Maryland was playing with a ball in the water when he disappeared beneath the surface and drowned, reports say. The boy, Saquan L. Kennedy, 6, of ...
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Posted on May 20, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Reports say a three-year-old girl who drowned last month while playing in an inflatable pool with her 5-year-old brother, may have been pushed by her brother. The girl, reported as Victoria ...
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Posted on May 18, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
After being sucked into a drainage pipe, a young boy has a stranger to thank for saving him from drowning. Reports say that Zac Rogan-Rae was playing in the water with his family at Bucca Crossing ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
In two separate incidents in southern Arizona earlier this month, two toddlers were taken to hospitals after falling into each of their families’ backyard pools. The first toddler, a 20-month-old ...
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Posted on May 14, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Twin girls Veronica and Angelina Andreottola were 2 years, 8 months old, when they died on last summer at their Boston-area home. Officials have determined it was simply a tragic accident, reports ...
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Posted on May 11, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A mother of four young children drove her minivan into the Hudson River, killing herself and three young children. One of her four children, 10-year-old Lashaun Armstrong, was the only occupant of the ...
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Posted on May 9, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Connecticut pool builder David Lionetti charged in a Connecticut boy’s 2007 drowning pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide for not installing a state-mandated safety device, reports say. ...
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Posted on May 8, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A 10-month-old boy drowned while taking a bath with his 24-month old sister last month, prompting an investigation by the Dyersburg, Tennessee Sheriff's Department. The child, whose name was not ...
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Posted on May 6, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A NewYork City man, Andres Soto-Diaz, 28, has been charged in the drowning death of his young son last summer, with the threat of punishment for involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment looming ...
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Posted on May 2, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A Cottontown, Tennessee toddler who remained in the hospital as a near-drowning victim in above-ground pool earlier last month, was involved simply in an accident, reports say, and no foul play was ...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A Cleveland County, Oklahoma jury found Donald Reeser guilty of murdering two-year-old Allie Croom by forcing Allie's head under water at Lake Stanley Draper, causing her to drown. The girl was the ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
A northern Colorado woman who was spending time on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced last month to prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, Colorado, was ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Eleven-year-old Mariyama Suleman’s first trip to a swimming pool ended with her at the bottom of Knickerbacker Park Pool last year. The outing with her family left her dead. Although she was still ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Tairino Masters was found floating face-down in a lagoon at Spirits Bay, just after New Year's. The two-year-old was barely breathing when his rescuers dragged him from the water, reports say. To get ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Drowning Lawyer
Sean Ross McGowan, a six-year-old from Dublin who was left with 95% brain damage after he nearly drowned while on an outing in 2007, has settled a court action against for just under a million ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2010 By Drowning Lawyer
Twin nine-year-old girls drowned earlier this month when they were swept away by water currents near the Texas City dike, just south of Houston, TX. Reports say the girls, Alexandra and Samantha ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
A plastic solar panel ended the life of a four-year-old child in Gouverneur County, New York last month. Police have ruled the drowning an accident. Reports say that Thomas Keith Vanschaick, of ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2010 By Drowning Injury Lawyer
Police in Hollywood, Florida are investigating the apparent child drowning of a toddler last month. The child, reported as two-year-old Valentino Llenderrozo, was found in a pool in Hollywood shortly ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 By Drowning Accident Lawyer
A six-year-old girl who was pulled from a public pool in Northeast Washington DC and was taken to the hospital in critical condition, died a day after the accident, reports say. An investigation at ...
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