Small Intestine Ripped From Six Year Olds Body!!!!
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
July 5, 2007 11:34am CST
Six year old Abagail Taylor was sitting over an open drain in a pool at The Minneapolis Golf Club. The pressure of the force pulled most of her small intestine through her rectum and out of her body.
This precious little girl will have to be fed intravenously and wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life.
How in the world could something like this happen? Where were her parents? Where were the people who should have been attending the pool? How could such a tragic thing happen? I don't even want to think about what could have happen. she had to go into shock. If this were my child, I would be reduced to a babbling idiot.
It only takes a second for lives to be changed forever. You have to watch them every minute. You can't trust just anybody to see after your children. This pains me deep in my heart. I don't know what else to say.
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17 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
6 Jul 07
I don't understand how this happened. Most pool drains (as far as I know) don't work unless someone turns them on. The only working pieces are the filters. The drain is just to drain water from the pool. So if drain was off, there should not have been any suction. Also, how was her small intestine pulled out? The large intestine would have had to been pulled out first and that is 5ft long.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
6 Jul 07
I did read the story and that is where my confusion with the small intestines being ripped out came from. Here is some basic info on the intestinal track: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestines
As you can see in the diagram the large intestines/colon is attached to the rectum. So the drain would have to pull that out (roughly 5ft) before it got to the small intestines. I doubt the poor kid would not have been screaming in pain if that happened.
I am not saying the story is untrue, I just found it odd that no one noticed this. Between the pain this kid was in and the amount of blood that should have been produced. How come on one saw anything was wrong until she climbed out?
Even at the shallowest pools there are usually a bunch of parents and a life guard keeping watch.
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@disvachic (10117)
• United States
5 Jul 07
Where in the world were the adults?Especially at a pool.That is really sad.I feel for the poor child.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
5 Jul 07
What was a six year old doing at a Golf club, and where were her parents, and who was supervising the pool area, and allowed her to sit above an open drain in the pool? Sad, sad, and very sad.
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@brendalee (6082)
• United States
6 Jul 07
That is one of the worst things I have ever heard of. I feel so bad for that poor little girl. I hope anyone with a pool with that kind of a drain will learn from this. My thoughts and prayers are with this family right now.
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@darkknight888 (200)
• India
6 Jul 07
Oh my god...wat a tragic thing to happen for such a young girl...it gives me the shiver just thinking of that scene...
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@alexsis (2149)
• United States
6 Jul 07
This is some horrible news. I almost cried when I read this story. All I could think about if this would have happened to my daughter what would I do. This child will be suffering for the rest of her life. And this happened at a Golf club, where was the grown-ups or a lifeguard. My heart and prayers goes out to the little girl and her family.
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
6 Jul 07
Hi Rozie. Yes, I heard this sad story on the news last night and it was so astonishing that it got me thinking along the same lines as you. The parents of the poor child should have been watching her more closely. They said that she was calm after the incident. In my opinion she was probably in shock. As you said, some of the blame must go to the people responsible for attending the pool. I am not a big fan of public swimming pools, and this just reinforces my doubts. Just the thought that this will affect this child for the rest of her precious life makes me want to cry.
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@rockingmom (885)
• Philippines
6 Jul 07
do you have any picture of the somewhat drained intestine, oh no, no ,no, i just saw the picture of the child, i think it is not fault of the parents, oh yeah their fault for the best reason that they are not with her very innocent daughter that time, and also fault of the pool owner i think since they should make people out of the area since it is really dangerous, and i have read there too that even an adult can be sucked in too, oh gosh, very terrible and tragic, imagine six inches, half a rule and just a tiny girl, it was really unnatural, and also i just want to share i don't know if you know this it just happened too with a weight lifter i think since the weight to be lifted is so heavy his rectum collapsed or opened widely and so to his intestines to come out, oh terrible too, It is really true that man's greatness is also the man's fail, thanks...
@sharonercastillo (888)
• Philippines
6 Jul 07
very tragic! i can't even imagine something like that will happend to my little girl. what was she doing there anyway. where's the parent, what are they doing, they suppose to take care of their child,.. are they draining the pool? why they let the child stay in the pool if they are. someone has to pay for that incident, the child's life is forever changed because of them
@capricorntorres (6)
• United States
5 Jul 07
I just heard the story this morning it was terrible to hear what had happened to this little girl. I blame the people in charge of the maintenance because they need to make sure thing like this don't ever happen. If the plug in the pool would have been secured like it was supposed to be, none of this would have happened. So sad!!!
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@chaydixieandme (17)
• Philippines
20 Jul 07
Did this really happen? I just can iagine the shock one little girl..that was such a horrible experience.
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@Kalachia (230)
• United States
6 Jul 07
Like I said in the other topic about this, those parents should have seen the drain open before their daughter got in that pool, if they're good parents that is. Aren't drains at the bottom of pools anyway? What the heck are they letting her swim like that for? She probably wasn't supervised either, I bet.
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@lisado (1227)
• United States
6 Jul 07
Why in the heck were people allowed in the pool while the drain was opened, anyway?? People can drown in less an an inch of water and the suction can be enough to hold someone under if their hand were to get caught, much less someone sitting on the drain like that! I'd like to know how something like this can happen. I read the article and the parents were in the area somewhere since they were right there on the scene, but why wasn't someone else watching what was going on? Lifeguard? Something? Why was anyone allowed in the pool if it was being drained? That is a lawsuit waiting to happen!
I feel badly for that little girl. She wasn't really old enough to know better and the rest of her life will no longer be the same because of an accident that shouldn't have happened. I can't imagine the pain she had to have been in, either.
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@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
6 Jul 07
That is horrible that she had to endure that and all the suffering she will still go through. I was reading about it earlier as well. They said that those drains can be so powerful, they can drown a person even while others are trying to pull them away. That is scary because this is something I'm sure not many of us would ever think about. I would never blame the parents in a case like this. It was a freak accident and I am sure they are truly suffering.
