[Engedi]

My feelings as well. Article says registered Nurse and a Psych Technician were witth the children; and began CPR after the fact. This is just so heart-breaking. A precious child died because parents weren’t watching their children.

[ottbmare]

I looked back over previous articles about the incident. The nurse and psych tech responded to a scream. The mothers of the babies in the water were not in the water with them. The mother of the three-year-old had actually left her daughter in the deep end of the pool by herself and had gone back to get something out of the cooler. God knows where the mother of the dead boy was. The kids should not even have been in the water without an adult within arm's reach.

In my area, local pools do not permit such small children to be in the water without an adult even if the children are wearing a flotation device. A child has to demonstrate that he or she can swim the entire length of the pool smoothly, unassisted, before he is allowed to be in the pool without an adult RIGHT next to him. And there are regulations about how many lifeguards are to be up in the chairs for how many pool patrons. No small child is allowed in the deep end.

Kids slip under the water and drown silently, without splashing or fighting. You have to watch them like a hawk.