Randall Cunningham's 2-year-old son drowns in family hot tub

[Longtimefan]

A terrible situation. I cannot understand a 2yr. old being left unsupervised in a body of water for any reason.

My prayers will be with the Cunningham family, may his son RIP. Negligence would apear to be of concern here.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

A terrible situation. I cannot understand a 2yr. old being left unsupervised in a body of water for any reason.

My prayers will be with the Cunningham family, may his son RIP. Negligence would apear to be of concern here.

Sometimes kids get away from you, last week my daughter snuck upstairs and decided to put on $30 worth of my wife's makeup. Pretty innocuous, but we were like damn, if she can get away from us to do that, what else can happen. It prompted a full day of childproofing. I think the lesson is with little kids, don't own a hot tub or a pool, unless you have a foolproof way of locking them out of it. They're drawn to fun stuff like this.

They tend not to rule negligence on something like this unless there was something appalling going on. The legal system understands that kids get into stuff.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

A terrible situation. I cannot understand a 2yr. old being left unsupervised in a body of water for any reason.

My prayers will be with the Cunningham family, may his son RIP. Negligence would apear to be of concern here.

Kids can sneak away (not really trying to sneak away) and things can happen before you know they are gone. Me and my daughter where going out side last week but I had to get something and I thought my wife was putting on her shoes. Next thing I know my wife is running out the door and returns with our daughter. I didn't even know she could open the door and its a good thing my wife heard our daughter calling for me. Thats is the first time that has ever happened but what if she did not call for me and instead wondered out into the street. We now keep the door locked but its just a matter of time for her to figure out how to unlock the dead bolt.