9-year-old boy

Name Unknown.
Died: April 21, 2021.
Age at death: 9.
Cause of death: Neglect (Drowning).
Location: Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA.

Details:
This 9-year-old boy lived with his father in a house with an old, dirty swimming pool out back. Despite the fact that the boy had a severe intellectual disability, the father did not bother to put a fence around the pool. Child protective services had once found him wandering alone outside.

On the day he died, the boy’s father reported that he had left the back door open, and the boy had fallen into the pool. Instead of calling emergency services, he called the child’s mother, and then only called emergency services when she demanded he do so. At first reluctant to retrieve the child from the pool because he did not like water, he was finally persuaded to fish him out with a rake and do CPR. The boy was found to be brain-dead at the hospital.

His father pleaded no contest to aggravated manslaughter, and was sentenced to one year of community control and five years of probation.

References:
Port St. Lucie man enters plea deal sparing him prison time in drowning of 9-year-old son
Father jailed on aggravated manslaughter of a child charge after son’s death in Port St. Lucie
Man arrested in connection with son’s drowning death in Port St. Lucie
Dad arrested for manslaughter after 9-year-old autistic son found at bottom of pool
Port St. Lucie man charged with manslaughter in autistic son’s drowning