At 3:45 pm Friday, several APD Officers responded to a medical call for assistance on the report that an 18 month old child was found in a swimming pool and was not breathing on the 2700 Block of Zinfandel Court.
Officers arrived on scene and assisted paramedics and fire in performing CPR on the child. The child was transported to nearby area hospital for additional life saving measures, but unfortunately did not survive.
The incident is under investigation. There was a fence around the pool and adults were present. Officers are speaking with everyone who was at the house at the time of the incident. The Contra Costa County Coroner’s Office was contacted and they responded to assume control of the investigation into this incident.
Anyone with information related to this case is asked to call the Antioch PD non-emergency line at (925) 778-2441. They may also text an anonymous tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using the key word Antioch in the body of the text.
Information provided by the Antioch Police Department
3 comments
Wow
Double wow
Some adult(s) at that house needs to be in prison.
While “wow” and “double-wow” don’t come to mind for me (my first reaction was “dear Lord, what a tragedy”), I’m perplexed as why this is even surprising to anyone, as pools are clearly far more dangerous to children than many other dangers they encounter day after day. Pools kill, plain and simple, and they should be treated no less than any other dangerous item when children are present. Ruling out murder and suicide, the top killer of children ages 1-14 include auto accidents, unintentional drownings, and fire/burns. Plainly stated, pools are more dangerous than a firearm in the home, with unintentional firearms deaths coming in as a small fraction of the numbers by other deaths, but dwarfed by unintentional drowning.
Check it out if you like here: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Unintentional_Deaths_2010-a.pdf
and here:http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leadingcauses.html
In 2010, 452 children between the ages of 10-14 died as a result of unintentional drowning while only 26 perished as a result of unintentional firearms.
We need to enact legislation now to outlaw these dangerous things that reside in nearly every other backyard in California, or limit the access to the ammunition for pools, namely water.
If this child were to have been killed unintentionally by a firearm negligently left laying around by the parent, you can rest assure they’d be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, so I agree with RJB, someone needs to go to prison.
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