This might be Criminal

[wajajaja02]

http://www.topix.com/city/westport-ct/2008/08/three-sent-to-hospital-after-boat-accident
Three Sent to Hospital After Boat Accident - Topix
the three year old was the one with out a life jacket on a hobie cat

 

[tommays]

Re: This might be Criminal

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-kiddrown0827.artaug27,0,28902.story



IT was at a sailing school and Everybody was wearing a PDF , it is unknown what happened to the child

 

[Mark42]

Re: This might be Criminal

A three year old in the water for a while will succumb to hypothermia very quickly. Or the child may have injested too much water, and vomited into her own lungs.

Too bad. Sail boats are much, much more prone to tipping over. I think young kids should only be in power boats or very large sail boats.

The sad part is, most families that lose a young child to an accident often results in a failed marriage and ends in divorce. The emotional strain, the guilt, the need to find blame, all compile to destroy the family structure.

I hope they can survive that aspect of their childs death.

 

[Windykid]

Re: This might be Criminal

And just what were two 3year old taking leasons for in the first place. I can see the 6 year old learning to sail, but the 3 year old are just to young for this very reason. Where were the parents? Why is an instructor left to babysit two three year old baby's.

 

[JB]

Re: This might be Criminal

Premeditated negligence strikes again; I hate it when such carelessness gets called and "accident".

 

[CATransplant]

Re: This might be Criminal

I see from the actual story that the kid had a pfd on. Never mind. What was a 3-year-old doing on a Hobie Cat with some 18 year old instructor? That's too young to learn to sail anything but a boat in the bathtub.

I'm extremely leery of taking kids that age on any boat, and there would have to be an adult with no other responsibilities than to keep the kid within immediate reach.

A Hobie Cat? One more-or-less adult? Four young kids? Not a chance. Someone or several someones made very bad decisions here.

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: This might be Criminal

We had a similar incident here last year.................both very tragic events...............but criminal?? I would think not, unless standard USCG safety precautions were ignored.