Where were the parents? I can’t imagine my 4 year old granddaughter being left to here own devices around a pool area. Most pools of this type have no lifeguard. This is a terrible loss, but I wonder again about personal reponsibility.
I agree. I NEVER rest when my Grands are near water, the same when my children were young, TWO eyes on the kids, always. Can’t see them, I’m off my butt searching.
No one is responsible for anything these litigious days. Not THESE parents. Everyone is a victim and has an excuse,
the Jenna 6 (It was racism), Michael Vick (i’m a southern boy, that’s what we do), not Mel Gibson (i really don’t hate jews, i was just drunk).
Makes me want to vomit, most days.
The parents were probably inside at the bar slamming martini’s with their snooty country club friends. Agree w/all that nobody should leave a 5 year old alone near water EVER. They should have had the child wear inflatable water wings or a lifejacket. You can bet their attitude was that they paid to belong to the club so they were entitled to use the pool as a babysitter. This doesn’t say if the drowing occured in the adult pool, or a wading pool. If it was the latter, most places don’t have lifeguards. Even so, $4MM is a lot of money for a 5 year old under any circumstances. You know the parents are in it for the money when they’re appealing the $1.3MM cap on wrongful death.
The rule at my pool is that you must keep your children that can’t swim at arms length. I assume this poor child was a non swimmer. This article does not state all the facts, but I agree the parents are primarily responsible for the safety of their children. We are now a nation of “I am hurt, and somebody is going to pay.”
First of all yes it was the parent’s responsibility and unfortunately even one second of taking your eyes off a child can end in tragedy. NO amount of money will bring this child back either way.
Cliff,
What do you mean the Jenna 6 incident is an excuse? None of these parents have sued. Their just trying to keep their kids out of jail. Hopefully they will sue later. The Jews came out on Mel so why can’t Blacks come out on what is blatantly racism?
Mike Vick,
Made a stupid mistake but breaking a man down to the lowest common denominator for dogs? How about the guy who gave cats to his pit bulls for them to eat (check out Channel 2 news website – Atlanta). In fact it was crazy Whoopi Goldberg that made the southern remark and in that case dog-fighting in something people of every race do here in the south, believe me. They just haven’t been caught yet.
Before you make crazy remarks about something totally unrelated to the story at hand and offend people – think twice before you type.
Here is the article from the Cleveland Examiner that gives a few more facts:
Anne Arundel County (Map, News) – Surrounded by photographs of their dead son, the parents of Connor Freed, the 5-year-old Davidsonville boy who drowned in a Crofton pool last month, announced Thursday a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against Crofton Country Club and its pool management company.
“He was the sweetest child,” said Connor’s father, Thomas Freed. An attorney for Freed and Debra Neagle Webber, Connor’s mother, filed the lawsuit Thursday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.
It alleges that Crofton Country Club failed to provide an adequate number of properly-trained lifeguards to monitor the pool where Connor drowned.
Wayne Rohauer, the manager of Crofton County Club, said he could not comment on pending litigation.
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On June 22 Connor was at the country club with family friend Paul Carroll, who was watching Connor and two of his own children at the pool, said the family’s lawyer, H. Briggs Bedigian. At about 4:30 p.m., Carroll took off Connor’s lifejacket so he could go to the bathroom, Bedigian said.
According to Bedigian, Carroll was watching his younger daughter in the pool and, after he hadn’t seen Connor in a few minutes, sent his son to look for him in the bathroom.
When his son left, his daughter cried out that Connor was floating in the pool, Bedigian said.
Bedigian said women at the club helped Carroll drag Connor out of the pool, and that the lifeguards attempted to perform CPR. An ambulance transported Connor to a hospital, where he died about an hour after drowning.
Bedigian said the family doesn’t hold Carroll responsible. “When we go to a pool with trained lifeguards we are under a reasonable belief that lifeguards will perform their duties,” he said.
Thomas Freed said he is filing this lawsuit to attack complacency in lifeguards throughout the state.
“If one family is spared from the pain and anger and all the rest of what we are going though, his life will not be lived in vain,” he said.
My heart goes out to these parents for the loss of their child. I can’t imagine their pain. That said…I do agree that keeping track of a small child around a pool is the parents responsibility. I have a 3 yr old and I wouldn’t care of the pool is full of lifeguards who are all watching my child. Daddy is going to be there right next to my little girl. I wish I knew the answer to getting our society to take responsibility for our own actions or lack there of.
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Where were the parents? I can’t imagine my 4 year old granddaughter being left to here own devices around a pool area. Most pools of this type have no lifeguard. This is a terrible loss, but I wonder again about personal reponsibility.
I agree. I NEVER rest when my Grands are near water, the same when my children were young, TWO eyes on the kids, always. Can’t see them, I’m off my butt searching.
No one is responsible for anything these litigious days. Not THESE parents. Everyone is a victim and has an excuse,
the Jenna 6 (It was racism), Michael Vick (i’m a southern boy, that’s what we do), not Mel Gibson (i really don’t hate jews, i was just drunk).
Makes me want to vomit, most days.
I could not agree more. Where were the parents?
The parents were probably inside at the bar slamming martini’s with their snooty country club friends. Agree w/all that nobody should leave a 5 year old alone near water EVER. They should have had the child wear inflatable water wings or a lifejacket. You can bet their attitude was that they paid to belong to the club so they were entitled to use the pool as a babysitter. This doesn’t say if the drowing occured in the adult pool, or a wading pool. If it was the latter, most places don’t have lifeguards. Even so, $4MM is a lot of money for a 5 year old under any circumstances. You know the parents are in it for the money when they’re appealing the $1.3MM cap on wrongful death.
The rule at my pool is that you must keep your children that can’t swim at arms length. I assume this poor child was a non swimmer. This article does not state all the facts, but I agree the parents are primarily responsible for the safety of their children. We are now a nation of “I am hurt, and somebody is going to pay.”
Sad…just sad.
First of all yes it was the parent’s responsibility and unfortunately even one second of taking your eyes off a child can end in tragedy. NO amount of money will bring this child back either way.
Cliff,
What do you mean the Jenna 6 incident is an excuse? None of these parents have sued. Their just trying to keep their kids out of jail. Hopefully they will sue later. The Jews came out on Mel so why can’t Blacks come out on what is blatantly racism?
Mike Vick,
Made a stupid mistake but breaking a man down to the lowest common denominator for dogs? How about the guy who gave cats to his pit bulls for them to eat (check out Channel 2 news website – Atlanta). In fact it was crazy Whoopi Goldberg that made the southern remark and in that case dog-fighting in something people of every race do here in the south, believe me. They just haven’t been caught yet.
Before you make crazy remarks about something totally unrelated to the story at hand and offend people – think twice before you type.
Here is the article from the Cleveland Examiner that gives a few more facts:
Anne Arundel County (Map, News) – Surrounded by photographs of their dead son, the parents of Connor Freed, the 5-year-old Davidsonville boy who drowned in a Crofton pool last month, announced Thursday a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against Crofton Country Club and its pool management company.
“He was the sweetest child,” said Connor’s father, Thomas Freed. An attorney for Freed and Debra Neagle Webber, Connor’s mother, filed the lawsuit Thursday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.
It alleges that Crofton Country Club failed to provide an adequate number of properly-trained lifeguards to monitor the pool where Connor drowned.
Wayne Rohauer, the manager of Crofton County Club, said he could not comment on pending litigation.
People who read this also read:
Drowning victim’s parents are given $4M
Police recruit, two others die in weekend crashes
On June 22 Connor was at the country club with family friend Paul Carroll, who was watching Connor and two of his own children at the pool, said the family’s lawyer, H. Briggs Bedigian. At about 4:30 p.m., Carroll took off Connor’s lifejacket so he could go to the bathroom, Bedigian said.
According to Bedigian, Carroll was watching his younger daughter in the pool and, after he hadn’t seen Connor in a few minutes, sent his son to look for him in the bathroom.
When his son left, his daughter cried out that Connor was floating in the pool, Bedigian said.
Bedigian said women at the club helped Carroll drag Connor out of the pool, and that the lifeguards attempted to perform CPR. An ambulance transported Connor to a hospital, where he died about an hour after drowning.
Bedigian said the family doesn’t hold Carroll responsible. “When we go to a pool with trained lifeguards we are under a reasonable belief that lifeguards will perform their duties,” he said.
Thomas Freed said he is filing this lawsuit to attack complacency in lifeguards throughout the state.
“If one family is spared from the pain and anger and all the rest of what we are going though, his life will not be lived in vain,” he said.
Now that’s what I call professional. Makes me want to almost change my name.
My heart goes out to these parents for the loss of their child. I can’t imagine their pain. That said…I do agree that keeping track of a small child around a pool is the parents responsibility. I have a 3 yr old and I wouldn’t care of the pool is full of lifeguards who are all watching my child. Daddy is going to be there right next to my little girl. I wish I knew the answer to getting our society to take responsibility for our own actions or lack there of.