It was the first day of 2017.
Slayton said 2-year-old Gavin and his 4-year-old brother were playing by themselves in a backyard with an unfenced pool.
Doctors would later tell her, Gavin was likely in the water at least 10 minutes before they found him.
At the time, swimming lessons were recommended for children starting at age three. Gavin was just a few months away.
“We were always in the pool. If we were swimming and it was swimming season, we were in the water with them with safety devices and things like that. This was just an accident,” said Slayton.
According to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, 37 children have died in water around the state since January.
Agency Mania Solutions Launches Agency Mania University
prweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Event supported Benidorm Dog Homing and Scruffy s Angels
gazette-news.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette-news.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Laguna Beach Local News
More than 45 people met at Laguna Beach City Hall on June 15, 2021, to celebrate the reopening of California’s economy. Photo by Sharon Evans.
More than 45 residents and city employees came together at Laguna Beach City Hall to formally recognize the city’s reemergence from COVID-19 restrictions and celebrate their post-pandemic lives on Tuesday.
Mayor Pro Tem Sue Kempf and long-time resident Denny Freidenrich met up for the friends and neighbors, many of whom hadn’t seen each other in the last 16 months, for the community group photograph.Â
Freidenrich asked for a moment of silence to remember the more than 600,000 Americans who have died after contracting COVID, more than 62,000 of whom were Californians. Of those, 5,099 people were from Orange County by Tuesday, according to the Orange County Healthcare Agency. He praised his neighbors for remaining calm during the unprecedented health crisis, despite the trauma everyone was experiencing.