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Female doctor stood and watched as boy, 7, drowned in swimming pool, police claim
Daily Mail UK ^ | 10 17 2026 | ELIOT FORCE

Posted on 10/18/2026 6:20:31 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

A Louisiana doctor is accused of wasting five crucial minutes while a young child in her care was drowning right in front of her.

Sukanthini Subbiah, 48, was arrested by the Orlando Police Department on Wednesday and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter of a child for allegedly allowing seven-year-old Khushil Bandi to drown.

At the time of the drowning on April 10, Subbiah was visiting her mother in Orlando, Florida, with her son, who is also seven years old and was identified as DJ by police, according to an affidavit reviewed by the Daily Mail.

While Subbiah was in town, her son became friends with Khushil and his twin sister, who lived in the neighborhood, according to sworn statements the doctor gave to police.

Subbiah said that she went with her mother and DJ to pick up the neighbor's kids and go to a pool near their home with permission from the twins' mother.

The group arrived around 6.20pm, and the three children immediately jumped into the pool, Subbiah said. Shortly after, the doctor noticed Khushil had been underwater for '45 seconds or so,' she told police.

Subbiah said she then told the other two seven-year-old children to retrieve Khushil, but they told her the water was too deep. She then requested help from another man at the pool, who jumped into the water and pulled out an unconscious Khushil.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: dei; doctor; drowned; louisiana; sukanthinisubbiah; swimmingpool

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1 posted on 10/18/2026 6:20:32 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Kids who are drowning present very differently than people think they do, or how it is presented in film. It’s very easy for someone who is not familiar with how drowning looks to not realize that someone is drowning.

It’s not obvious.


2 posted on 10/18/2026 6:24:44 AM PDT by jdege
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To: yesthatjallen

Kids who are drowning present very differently than people think they do, or how it is presented in film. It’s very easy for someone who is not familiar with how drowning looks to not realize that someone is drowning.

It’s not obvious.


3 posted on 10/18/2026 6:24:50 AM PDT by jdege
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To: yesthatjallen

This story has little to do with her qualifications as a physician. It’s a case where a bystander may have had a legal duty to help. Fascinating case.


4 posted on 10/18/2026 6:25:39 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Louisiana doctor Sukanthini Subbiah.”

Yeah, right.

She needs her medical license pulled.


5 posted on 10/18/2026 6:30:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: jdege
Good point (see silent drowning), but according to the article she noticed the victim was underwater and in trouble and delayed going in to help.
It begs the question why a parent in charge would let a child swim in water that she felt was too deep for her own safety?
6 posted on 10/18/2026 6:38:23 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is why these foreigners don’t belong here. Their morality is different.


7 posted on 10/18/2026 6:40:57 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: jdege

Unless the kid has gills, five minutes under water should be a large clue - even to a doctor.


8 posted on 10/18/2026 6:41:54 AM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Well, if the water was deep, and she couldn't swim, she may have a defense. But still pretty negligent in letting children in her care jump into a pool too deep for them to handle.

Kids who are drowning present very differently

Being underwater for 45 seconds should be a clue, however.Waiting another 5 minutes takes it to the next level.

9 posted on 10/18/2026 6:43:43 AM PDT by PAR35
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“wasting five crucial minutes
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The group arrived around 6.20pm, and the three children immediately jumped into the pool...Shortly after, the doctor noticed Khushil had been underwater for ‘45 seconds or so
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Subbiah said she then told the other two seven-year-old children to retrieve Khushil, but they told her the water was too deep
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She then requested help from another man at the pool, who jumped into the water and pulled out an unconscious Khushil.”

I don’t see in the quoted text where she wasted any significant amount of time.

I think a child can hold his breath for close to 45 seconds.


10 posted on 10/18/2026 6:52:45 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

Female doctors do the same thing, just about every day in most cases, by not telling people to simply stop or greatly cut down carbs if they’re diabetic. They instead watch their patients bodies degrade, as they endure the horrific complications of over the years and finally die 10 years early (on average).

Come to think of it, so do male doctors (in the vast majority of cases).

[[by the way, cutting out carbs was the ONLY treatment for diabetes before Insulin was available...think about it]]


11 posted on 10/18/2026 6:56:37 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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“allowing seven-year-old Khushil Bandi to drown
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she then told the other two seven-year-old children to retrieve Khushil, but they told her the water was too deep”


12 posted on 10/18/2026 6:56:42 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Were any Americans involved in this story?

Indians have no fear of death or dying. Indeed, they welcome it, knowing they'll be reincarnated back as anything other than an Indian.

And of course being Indian, the natural reaction to seeing another Indian drowning (a fate that frequently visits Indians) is to stand aside and film the event on their iPhone. At any rate, they might've been different castes which would explain her reluctance to assist.

13 posted on 10/18/2026 6:57:31 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: jdege
Not obvious? It is if you have a watch...or can count to 100. What a dumbass statement. Are you a Vulcan?

With no regard for your personal safety...you jump into the pool. Period!

14 posted on 10/18/2026 6:57:40 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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To: BobL

There are two types of diabetes, as I understand things [I’m not a doctor].

Before insulin became an available drug, Type I diabetes (childhood onset typically) eventually became lifeless as I understand things.

Type II diabetes (until recently having only an adult onset), the far more common type, comes in large part from the diet.

Type I - infected(?) pancreas
Type II - overworked pancreas


15 posted on 10/18/2026 7:02:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: yesthatjallen

When I saw her name my first thought was maybe she didn’t grow up in a helper culture. But taking someone else’s child to a swimming pool brings more responsibility. Not a lackadaisical reaction where you shift your responsibility to someone else.


16 posted on 10/18/2026 7:07:25 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: BobL

“by not telling people to simply stop or greatly cut down carbs if they’re diabetic.”

I think doctors are currently taught to be non-judgmental. Someone can be obese, smoke, take drugs, or engage in risky sex, and the doctor may not say anything.

That said, I did get a sales-job about my “vaccine hesitancy.”


17 posted on 10/18/2026 7:11:01 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Brian Griffin

That’s pretty much right, maybe exactly right:

Type 1 is an autoimmune condition where the body attacks the beta cells in the pancreas.

Type 2 is basically due to burnout (actually, near-burnout) of a healthy pancreas as it attempts to provide more and more insulin to the body’s increasingly resistant cells (think opioid-addicted people, they need constantly-increasing quantities because their bodies become resist to the drug).

For a long time when Insulin was available, Insulin couldn’t be measured as it was a tiny amount. That changed in the 1960s when methods were devised that measured Insulin, and it became quite clear that the difference between the two types were huge (as we’ve stated). But the one thing that didn’t change was that zeroing-out carbs greatly reduced the need for Insulin (not completely, but damn close!). So, for both types, the medical community has had 60 years to get it right...and CHOSE not to.


18 posted on 10/18/2026 7:16:23 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The children immediately jumped into the pool .

I wonder if the kid hit his head when he jumped. Easy to do in the shallow end.

Is it safe to assume the child knew how to swim ? Not knowing how to swim would probably preclude them immediately jumping in.

19 posted on 10/18/2026 7:16:34 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: yesthatjallen

Did she know how to swim? If you don’t know how, don’t take kids to a pool and expect other’s to save them. If you are the children’s parent don’t allow someone else to do this either. BTW wading into the Ganges doesn’t count as swimming.


20 posted on 10/18/2026 7:17:23 AM PDT by centermass_socrates (Keep it clean, keep it loaded, and keep it handy.)
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