Paloma Quatrini (3) she was spending time with her family at a hotel pool in Mexico when the drain cover broke. The strong suction then pulled the little girl to the mechanism at the bottom of the pool. The little girl, who was just days away from her fourth birthday, got completely stuck in the facility while her desperate parents tried to free her, reports .
Finally, they managed to find an emergency switch under the pool, and after turning it off, Palo was able to free himself. She was then immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered serious internal injuries. According to the parents’ complaint against the company Hayward, which was supposed to make the drain, the suction was so strong that the little girl’s small intestine was torn from her body.
The girl was then taken to a children’s hospital in Pittsburgh, where her the doctor performed a life-saving operation. “The entire small intestine was gone. We had to connect the large intestine so that the digestive system would work, but it basically doesn’t have a small intestine.” said the doctor Dr. Geoffrey Bond. He added that as a father, he could not imagine anything scarier than such an accident.
Even two years after the tragic event, she must now be five years old Paloma receives vital nutrients directly into her stomach and bloodstream because her digestive system is not functioning normally. The parents claim in their lawsuit that the drain was defective and that its failure changed their daughter’s life forever. According to the documents, he will have health problems for the rest of his life.
The Hayward company expressed regret for the girl’s injuries and wished her a speedy recovery. At the same time, she tried to dismiss the lawsuit with the argument that the accident happened in Mexico, not in the US state of Pennsylvania.
However, the family sued again, this time naming the Hayward company as the sole defendant. The case continues to be handled in Pittsburgh, where most of the witnesses are located. “A three-year-old girl should not be forced to litigate in a foreign country where she almost lost her life,” emphasized the family’s lawyer.
