1-year-old dies after being pulled from pool at Northern Michigan home

OTSEGO COUNTY, MI — A 1-year-old boy died final week after he climbed right into a pool and nobody observed for as much as 25 minutes. In accordance with the Michigan State Police, the boy was discovered unresponsive by his mom in an above-ground pool at a house on Hayes Tower Highway in Hayes Township on July 6, 2022

Police have been referred to as round 11:53 a.m. after the mom discovered the boy. The kid was transported to Otsego Memorial Hospital after which flown to Helen DeVos Youngsters’s Hospital in Grand Rapids the place he was pronounced lifeless.

Police imagine the toddler received into the pool by climbing a ladder whereas outdoors with different youngsters. These youngsters have been taking part in on a close-by trampoline and didn’t see the toddler entering into the pool. The mom was inside the house on the time. As soon as the mom realized the kid was lacking, she went in search of the toddler earlier than she discovered him within the pool.

The toddler was reportedly final seen between 10 and 25 minutes earlier than being discovered. The kid’s dying marks the third unintentional drowning dying within the county within the final month, based on MSP.

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