Sexual predators don't scare me. Recalled baby toys don't scare me. Swimming pools scare the ever living crap out of me.
But what I couldn't understand about this tragedy is that the news was talking to the mom. She was just standing outside of her house giving a casual interview about how she was outside with her kid, decided to walk inside and go do something "real quick" and by the time she came back out he was floating in the pool dead.
She was looking right at the camera and giving a play by play. "Ya, I just went inside real quick like and by the time I got back out, there he was floatin' at the top of the pool and I thought it was a doll or somethin' cause it didn't look like him."
She even had makeup on and looked like her hair was done.
The news was quick to point out that the pool was ungated and there were zero safety measures in place for this "family pool".
If something tragic happened to either of my children, you can be damn sure the last thing I will be doing is sitting down talking with the local news. I would be so devastated that I probably walk around in circles in an unconscious state mumbling words until they took me off to the crazy house. Not only did her son die that morning, but it was also HER fault. I'm all for letting kids have freedoms but what idiot lets a two year old toddler play alone next to a pool?
I suppose people grieve in different ways and I shouldn't judge a situation I've never (and godwilling WILL never) have gone through but...she did her hair and makeup!
Sounds like something is fishy. If she just ran in to do something "real quick" (to me real quick means like 10 seconds) then she would have been able to get him out and if it was a little longer then she would have been able to resuscitate him if she knew CPR, which she probably doesn't if she left him alone outside right next to a swimming pool. I don't ever leave my kids outside alone and we don't even have a swimming pool!
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of creepy. There was a family on Today a week or two ago; the mom had left an 18 month old in the tub for a few minutes and came back he was floating and blue. He actually was resuscitated and is fine now. But you could tell that mom knew it was her fault and felt awful. She was all done up for the Today show but this was several months after the fact and her son was fine, and she still cried talking about it. You're right and we really shouldn't judge but it's hard to read and understand some people.
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