Family of Georgia Toddler Who Died From Drowning During Swimming Lesson Demands Another Look Into The Case
“Help me get him out!” Tenhuisen said.
Another mother helped Tenhuisen pull the boy’s limp body from the pool. Nancy Hillis, a nurse with a child scheduled for the next class, started to perform CPR.
Dr. Lora Darrisaw, the forensic pathologist, says Izzy passed away, because of accidental drowning. Also that the length of time underwater could not be determined, but it was under one hour. Darrisaw did not see any signs of injury or struggle.
Once the last child got out, Tenhuisen said she did too. She started greeting parents, dried off and sat down briefly before her granddaughter alerted her about Izzy, Tenhuisen said. She told police, Izzy could’ve gotten “a little too close to the drop off,” but she doesn’t remember “because there was just splashing,” and she was “watching them swim across.”
No one claims they heard the splash other than Mason Washington, a student in Izzy’s class. Mason says Izzy got out of the pool before him after the last lap, however, he heard a splash about 10 seconds later.
Izzy’s aunt, Glover-Fields, pointed out that another student said her nephew was coughing and throwing up the first day of class. The report shows that Izzy told his mother, Dori Scott, that he didn’t want to go to class the second day.
“He took on too much water. So they took him out of the pool, sat him on the concrete and left him there,” Glover-Fields said during a roundtable earlier this week according to WJBF.
Glover-Fields says Tenhuisen didn’t informed Izzy’s mother, who brought him to the class each day and waited for him. The boy’s aunt said she found numerous incidents of negligence in the report.
“If you don’t consider every word and exegetic every sentence and break it down for what’s it worth and let it stand on its own merit, then of course you’re not going to find anything,” Glover-Fields said.
In a interview, the family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, told Atlanta Black Star his office will be looking through the sheriff’s files to look for civil violations and check if employees followed procedure. The sheriff says some state regulations for swim classes don’t apply to the case because the lessons were conducted in a private pool. Tenhuisen rented the pool from the homeowner for the classes.
The case has been investigated, District Attorney Jared T. Williams says all decisions in this case will be “made independently of any other agency.”
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