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  • Kansas City’s Schlitterbahn Water Park, former Operations Manager, Indicted by Grand Jury

    A Wyandotte County, Kansas grand jury has returned criminal indictments for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment of a child against a Kansas City water park operator, its corporate parent, and the park’s former manager in connection with the August 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy. In this post, our personal injury and wrongful death lawyer will discuss the problem of water park ...
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  • No "Miracle Cure" for Near-drowning Accidents

    It’s no secret that newspaper editors and television news anchors love a story with a happy ending. It’s also no secret that there are more than a few individuals, with either job title, that have been known to play “fast and loose” with the facts in order to sell a little more of whatever his or her employer happens to be selling at the moment. In today’s post, a drowning accident lawyer gives us ...
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  • Ten Family Members Dead after Drowning Accident Caused by Arizona Flash Flood

    What began as a family outing in the high country of central Arizona on the afternoon of July 15th became a family tragedy when a flash flood smashed into a well-known picnic and swimming area a few miles north of the town of Payson. By Sunday afternoon, 9 of the 14 family members of Maria Rayas, including Maria and her 3 children, were confirmed as dead and her husband was listed as missing. ...
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  • "Willful" or "Deliberate" Negligence and Drowning Accidents

    As any drowning accident lawyer will confirm, most drowning accidents could have been prevented if someone had been more careful. Even though some drowning accidents are caused by the unwise choices of the victim, far more drowning accidents are the result of someone’s carelessness. In legal terms, what a layman calls “carelessness” is called “negligence.” When an individual (or business) ...
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  • Swimming Pool Drowning Lawyer

    There are a significant amount of pool accidents that happen due to pool fences being improperly or not at all covered or fenced off. The negligence can be on the part of the caregiving, property owner or caregiver. Regardless of who is at fault, negligence is negligence. Swimming pool accidents can lead to not only injuries but also death due to the improper pool designs, pump entrapment or ...
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  • Accidental Drowning Water Safety Laws and Regulations

    There are voluntary guidelines that were developed by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. These voluntary guidelines include both labelling and education. This is the effort of addressing the very real hazard of children having drowning accidents or death in buckets as little as five gallons. On face that might seem crazy, but the reality is that it's not a late night joke. ...
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  • Children Involved in Drowning Accidents

    Every year there will be more than 3,400 people in the United States that will die from drowning with one out of every five of the drowning victims being under 14 years of age. Some additional statistics on children and drowning include: For every child that losses their life to drowning another four children will require emergency medical treatment for near drowning. For children that experience ...
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  • The Importance of Supervision at the Pool

    Even though an individual can fall victim to a water related accident at any age, in children ages 1-4, drowning is the second leading cause of death. When water related injuries are non-fatal, it can still often lead to serious and long term injuries from deprivation of oxygen, including but not limited to: Brain Damage Loss of Basic Functioning In addition to oxygen related injuries, swimming ...
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  • Glenview Park District Pools Closed due to Drowning

    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 a short time after being pulled from the water. The boy was visiting the pool with 19 other children through a day care center camp. District officials have banned the summer camp groups from three pools following the ...
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  • Drowning Victims Finally Identified

    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 drowned while trying to capture a boat that had drifted away from him at the Manawa Mill Pond. He was able to grab the rope that attached the boat to the dock, but it pulled him in and he was not able to ...
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  • State Closes Day Cares Following Near-Drowning

    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, was rescued by a nine-year-old girl, who saw him when no other adults did and dove into the water to pull him out. The daycare, run by Kid Biz LLC, has reported that the centers have offered camping ...
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  • Boy Drowns After Swimming in Apartment Complex Pool

    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 drowning at the Princeton Pines apartment complex on Forest Avenue. Upon arrival, the boy was pulled from the pool by firefighters and paramedics and taken to Maine Medical Center, where he was later ...
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  • Woman Found Competent for Trial

    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 the death of her daughter, Sophia, as well as child cruelty, reports say. She has entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, reports say. Investigators have reportedly said ...
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  • Drowning Victim Found

    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 Greenfield, had been at the lake with her family when she was reported missing. Once the girl was reported missing, the entrance to the lake was shut down in an attempt to find her. , while members of the ...
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  • Independence Day Drowning Claims Six-Year-Old

    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 Baltimore, was with other children playing with the ball in the Chesapeake Bay when he went under, reports say. As soon as he disappeared, Emergency Services was called and rangers and police - along with ...
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  • Daytona Toddler Drowning May Have Been Assisted

    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 Cunningham, was pronounced dead after rescuers transported her from her home in Daytona Beach, reports say. The drowning was reported as an accident, but reports now say state Department of Children & Families ...
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  • Anonymous Samaritan Saves Drowning Child

    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 Bridge, in Britain when the knee-deep water in which he was wading sucked him towards a bridge and into a pipe underneath it, reports say. The pipe, which was just big enough for his body to fit inside, ...
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  • Two Toddlers Suffer Separate Incidents in Family Pools on Same Day

    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 girl, was underwater for several moments at a home in Tempe shortly after 7 p.m., according to reports. The child was quickly removed from the pool and emergency services were summoned. Although they ...
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  • Deaths of Twin Toddlers Ruled Accidental

    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 say. The deaths of Lynnfield twins, who drowned in the family backyard pool, were caused when one of the girls managed to push a switch that opened the pool safety cover. Once that happened, they entered ...
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  • Mother Drives Minivan into Hudson, Kills Herself and Three Children

    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 car to survive. The youngster pulled himself out of the van's driver-side window, swam to shore and flagged down a passing motorist, Meave Ryan. Ryan saw a shivering boy by the side of the road ...
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  • Pool Company Pleads Guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide

    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. Lionetti, the president of Shoreline Pools, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and will pay $150,000 for water-safety advertisements after having been charged with manslaughter, which could ...
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  • Baby Drowns in Bathtub

    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 released, was taken to the Dyersburg hospital Thursday where he was pronounced dead. Reports say the mother of both the 10-month old and a 24-month-old girl left both children alone while they were in a ...
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  • Authorities Charge Man in Drowning Death of Son

    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 over him. Although prosecutors say there no evidence to suggest Soto-Diaz intended to harm his 17-month-old son, his son Eliel drowned in the bathtub of the family's former home in the 600 block of ...
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  • Toddler Victim of Near-Drowning Incident in Above-Ground Pool

    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 suspected. The 3-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center by LifeFlight helicopter after emergency services arrived at the scene of the ...
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  • Man Guilty of Drowning Two-Year-Old

    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 daughter of his girlfriend. Reeser was led to prison in handcuff, sentenced for life without parole for the drowning death. The jury took just over five hours to come to a decision. Prosecutors released ...
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