sucking intestines out of children

forestal

forestal

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Wonder why this is still happening. In 1997 John Edwards sued this same drain company when it did the same thing to a little girl in his state...

FOXNews.com - Girl Whose Intestines Were Partially Sucked Out by Swimming Pool Drain Dies - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

MINNEAPOLIS — The family of a 6-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a Minnesota swimming pool drain last year says the child has died.
Family attorney Bob Bennett says Abigail Taylor's parents were with her when she died Thursday evening at a Nebraska hospital.
Abigail was injured on June 29 when she sat on a pool drain and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She had small bowel, liver and pancreas transplants at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in December but suffered complications.
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Pool Drain Eviscerates 6-Year-Old Girl

Since 1990, 170 people, mostly children, have been caught in drains and 27 of them have died. At least three other children have suffered injuries similar to Abigail's since 1990.3 A similar case in North Carolina became one of the biggest legal victories of presidential candidate John Edwards when, in 1997, a young girl he represented who had been disemboweled by a defective swimming pool drain received a $25 million settlement.2 Note: See the special statistics section at the end of this article.
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MMDad

MMDad

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forestal said:
Wonder why this is still happening. In 1997 John Edwards sued this same drain company when it did the same thing to a little girl in his state...
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It's still happening because Edwards motivation wasn't preventing future accidents, it was $$$.
 
R

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I thought Pools used the filters in the sides ..... :jameo: and the hole in the bottom was only the drain ......... :twitch:



:keepingmychildawayfrompools:
 
glhs837

glhs837

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Looks like Edwards accomplished nothing in the way of increasing safety, just emptying an insurance companys wallet. There was no push then for actually requiring a different design, the only real solution. Adding warnings is nothing. If you dont idiot proof the design, you can tattoo the warnings on the operators head with no better results.

1. Anti-tamper bolts required for attachment of anti-vortex devices, snap on designs, or ones that can be removed with any screwdriver type tool (phillips or flathead) banned.

2. Surge kickoffs required for pumps. I'm not sure what this would require, but if we can mandate such devices for garage doors, surely not out of the question for pool pumps.

Hey, lookit that, there is such a thing

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Boils down to the Fed will give more money to states that pass legislation that does at least part of the above.
 
vraiblonde

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Is George Bush still sucking the intestines out of children? I thought the RNC made him stop that?
 
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Bann

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FTA:
"In December, Congress approved legislation to ban the manufacture, sale or distribution of drain covers that don't meet anti-entrapment safety standards.

The legislation, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, is named for another victim, the 7-year-old granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker. She drowned at a graduation party in 2002, when the suction from a drain pinned her.

Minnesota lawmakers are also considering new pool safety regulations."

I didn't realize Former Secretary of States James Baker lost a granddaughter to a similar accident.
:frown:
 
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