Bertha Venation
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Thu Jul-09-09 11:19 AM
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child drowns in pool in the county where I live |
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Unwatched Boy Drowns in Pool In Apparent 'Tragic Accident' By Matt Zapotosky Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 9, 2009
A 19-month-old boy left unattended in his mother's Charles County home Tuesday wandered into the back yard and apparently drowned in a pool, police said yesterday.
Jason Daniel Burke Jr. was discovered by his mother just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday lying unconscious in an aboveground pool in the 4300 block of Middletown Road in White Plains, said Diane Richardson, a spokeswoman for the Charles County Sheriff's Office. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Richardson said the mother had left her house to run an errand, telling the toddler's 15-year-old cousin, who lives in the house, to watch the boy while she was gone. The cousin, Richardson said, left to go fishing.
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How fucking stupid is this mother, or the cousin, or both?!
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Thu Jul-09-09 11:31 AM
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1. I started babysitting when I was 11 years old.... |
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...at that age I knew enough to watch a toddler and was totally responsible. I babysat for YEARS ~~ at 35-cent/hour. This was way, back when...obviously.
People would book me for holidays like New Year's Eve months in advance. I babysat all the way through HS and saved enough to buy a car for college.
At age 15 I knew enough to know to NEVER, EVER leave a toddler alone. You think they are napping? Riaaaaaaaaaght.... Two minutes flat, one of those kiddos could be out of his/her crib and into ANYTHING. I knew that way before age 15.
Unless the mom had some reason to know that the 15 year old was a mega fuck up, I see no problem with leaving a responsible teen that age with a toddler.
This is really sad...wow...:cry:
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GreenPartyVoter
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Thu Jul-09-09 01:31 PM
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7. Me too. I did have one tot run away on me. Thank God the neighbors brought him back. But the |
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house was a weird one. The bedroom was in its own building, and then the living room and kitchen were a different building. They were next to each other but with my hearing impairment I never heard that little guy leave. I guess I should have known better and just stood at the door and watched it the whole night.
I count that kid and myself really lucky that nothing bad happened to him.
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Thu Jul-09-09 12:33 PM
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2. When my sister & brother in law bought their first house they had a little baby. |
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They had that pool filled in first thing. Pools and little kids are a dangerous combination.
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Thu Jul-09-09 12:46 PM
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3. First thing my parents did when my little sister was on the way was install a fence around the pool. |
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And they made sure all the locks on the doors that led to the patio worked properly.
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Thu Jul-09-09 01:05 PM
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4. You can never be too sure with little tots around. |
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Thu Jul-09-09 01:10 PM
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5. My little sister used to sleepwalk |
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so my father and step-mother had to deadbolt the doors going out to the pool.
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Thu Jul-09-09 01:27 PM
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6. I read that too. Unbearably sad. |
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I don't know what the deal is with the 15-year-old, but I'll assume the mother thought she could trust him/her.
Still, what a senseless and completely preventable tragedy.
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Thu Jul-09-09 01:34 PM
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8. Sadly like so many tragic stories, this was the result of multiple break downs |
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in this case the mother made the mistake of trusting the cousin. The cousin failed to watch the child. Finally, the pool was not properly child proofed (which is a worse offense considering it was an above ground pool, which is usually easily secured)
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