A Georgia family is pleading for answers after the sudden death of a 4-year-old who died in June during a swimming lesson.
According to his parents, Dori and Walt Scott the young boy was a amazing kid who was a huge fan of the Black Panther superhero and loved to play with his siblings, ages 11, 3, and 16. His mother Dori said they decided to take their son to the instructor, Lexie TenHuisen who is the owner of “Swim With Lexie” because the boy’s older sister took lessons from her two years ago.
Divine Family,
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There’s no excuse to play Russian roulette with OUR children’s lives.
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Dori explained that she was told she couldn’t stay and watch the lesson because she might “distract the children.” She said she understood because she’s a hairstylist and knows that children can act differently when their parents are around. The first lesson went smoothly but during the second lesson on June 14, Dori Scott sat in her car waiting for the lesson to be over. Then she said a parent knocked frantically on her window. “She said, ‘Come check on your baby,'” she told TODAY Parents. “I immediately lost it because I saw it in her eyes.”
“I went through the gate and saw Izzy laying (next to) the pool unresponsive,” said Dori Scott. “A parent was doing CPR but he was limp.”
“I said, ‘What happened?’ and (Lexie) said, ‘I don’t know,'” said Dori Scott. “It felt like a dream … a mother’s worst nightmare.”
Police and first responders appeared on the scene and took over lifesaving measures, transferring Izzy to the Burke Medical Center in Waynesboro, then Children’s Medical Center in Augusta. On June 15, Izzy was declared dead as a result of “accidental drowning.”
There were about nine other kids in the lesson, according to the sheriff’s report, between the ages of 4 and 10. According to a media release from the sheriff’s department, toward the end of the lesson, Izzy got into the deep end of the pool undetected. When TenHuisen’s granddaughter noticed him there, the sheriff’s report says, she alerted the instructor, who had been drying off on the deck.
“We don’t have a concrete narrative of what happened,” civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing the Scott family, told TODAY Parents.
Noone can tell me my 4yr. Can’t have me there. She will serve no time..”Georgia Family Speaks Out After 4-Year-Old Drowns During Swimming Lesson” here: https://t.co/syoBOMxhyk
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The family has not filed a lawsuit in Izzy’s death but Merritt says they are in the “fact-finding phase” and will “make a determination for the family.”
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A press release sent to TODAY Parents from the Burke County Sheriff’s Office stated that after an examination that included analyzing the autopsy and interviewing TenHuisen and parents present during recovery efforts, no criminal charges will be filed in Izzy’s death.
“While there may be some form of negligence, it was determined that the case lacks sufficient evidence to prove criminal negligence,” stated the release. “As a result, we are unable to move forward with this case. Our findings have been forwarded to the District Attorney for further review.”