Toddler drowns in Lake during family get-together
Posted April 13th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.peninsuladailynews.comNot to add to the parents grief and suffering — I can’t even imagine what it’s like to lose a child, but there is a lesson to learned from this tragic ending. A toddler drowned during a family gathering. Although an accident, the sheriff states that there is nothing anybody could have done. He claims it all happened within a couple of minutes.
But, when a baby or toddler is near water, you can’t even allow yourself to turn your back for even 30 seconds. That is the lesson to be taught to all parents of young children. Small children and distractions do not mix. You can never be too safe. If a family does bring little ones around water, please have them in a life vest or some sort of floating device.
BEAVER — A 22-month-old boy drowned Friday during a family gathering at a home near Lake Pleasant.
Steven Neel, the son of Jennifer Daman and James Neel of Forks, vanished only minutes after several family members had seen him, and was found in Lake Creek about 50 minutes later.
“It was literally within just a couple of minutes — they realized he was missing, and launched a search,” Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrine said on Saturday.
“I can’t see a single thing that anyone could have done differently.”