It has been two weeks in a row now that I have read AJC on line articles about young children drowning or almost drowning in metro Atlanta. As an Atlanta personal injury lawyer who represents families of drowning victims, I always know that when summer arrives I am going to regularly read about young drowning victims in metro Atlanta and north Georgia.
The first article is about a nine year old boy who is in critical condition after almost drowning while attending a day camp at a Recreation Center in Jonesboro, Georgia. The second article is about a 4 year old girl who drowned in Gwinnett County. Apparently, the Clayton County boy could not swim and was drowning when he was pulled from the pool, given CPR and taken to Southern Regional Hospital and later airlifted to Egleston Hospital in Atlanta. The four year old girl was pulled from the water after she was notice lying still in the water at an apartment complex pool.
I just wrote a blog about a 7 year old who drowned at an apartment complex pool and I have the same thoughts about this apartment complex drowning. I want to focus this blog on the Clayton County near drowning. According to the newspaper article, the investigation surrounding the drowning is still continuing. And it should be. Unlike the young boy and girl that drown in Gwinnett County, the Clayton County boy suffered his injuries while attending a day camp at a Recreation Center. This raises a number of questions about why this happened and who might have been at fault for allowing it to happen.
Clearly, the day camp the boy was attending had a responsibility to keep the child safe while he was at the camp. Questions will need to be answered about why the child was left unsupervised long enough to almost drown. The day camp might try to claim that the rec center was responsible for keeping the child safe when he was in the pool. The rec center might claim the pool management company providing life guards for the pool was responsible for the boys safety and failed to adequately to do so. It appears that there are therefore three possible at fault parties and perhaps more.
As mentioned in my previous blog, an early thorough investigation needs to be made to quickly establish all the evidence to prove which parties are responsible for allowing this young child to almost drown. Competent experienced attorneys need to get to work as soon as possible to conduct this investigation to properly make claims against those parties. Please contact our office if you would like to speak to attorneys that can properly pursue these matters.
