Twin toddler siblings aged just 18 months both drowned in a pool at their family's mansion after their great-grandma with Alzheimer's left a door open.
From Safe Kids Oklahoma City Metro and Oklahoma Children's Hospital:
'Anything can happen in an instant…Children are attracted to water and toddlers won't have the skills to be able to help themselves get out of water…Drowning is very sudden, and it's very silent.
'Sometimes people have an idea that a child will have trouble in the water and be screaming, but they can't because their mouth is full of water. So it's very silent, and that's one of the scariest things about it.'
She recommended anyone who owns a pool should install a four-foot-high fence around it with a gate that young children will not be able to open.
In an instant. I'm trying not to judge. I don't see how there is any room to install a fence around this pool. A fence in this case might
have possibly saved these kids, it would not necessarily when they grew older. Especially if they are climbers. Where there is a will, there is a way, and they will find it leads to their tragic death.
I will say murky water would prevent you from immediately spotting the kids, not that I think it would have mattered in this case. Same goes for having alarms on the door. By the time, they got there, it would have been too late.
Might as well either fill it up in or put the house up for sale. I can't imagine the kids ever wanting to swim in that pool again.
I would never have bought a house with a pool that close to the back door, but that's me judging.
You can find the gofundme link and full story at the Daily mail link below.
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