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KSTP.com - Drainage system tears out girl's intestines in St. Louis Park

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A six-year-old Edina girl has been hospitalized after a horrific accident at a swimming pool.

Abigail Taylor was severely injured Tuesday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club. According to a posting by her family on the Caring Bridge Web site, the drain's powerful suction tore out part of her intestinal tract, and a surgeon told the family that part of her intestines had been lost.

The posting, which has since been taking down, said it's a "medical miracle" that Taylor is still alive.

Taylor is listed in serious condition at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Bob Bennett, an attorney representing the family, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press she was conscious and able to speak late Tuesday but that she faces a series of surgeries with uncertain results.

Bennett alleged that the swimming pool's drain hole was improperly uncovered. An official at the golf club expressed sympathy for the family and said he didn't think anything was wrong with the pool, but referred questions to the club's attorney, who declined to comment.

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This should not still be happening. This is not the first time it has happened. In fact this type of thing happened all too frequently years ago and new safety specifications were made when it came to building pools. If this pool was not in within code for the public, this is an incident where they should definitely be sued.
 

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Nope it isn't urban legend. That stuff is true. For a year or so there were multiple stories of this type of thing regarding drain pipes. There was even stories about men and the suction pipe - go figure. LOL
 

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ugh...I used to work at pools and my old boss told me a story once about a baby who was sitting on the drain in a baby pool...the babys intestines were sucked out as well. The messed up part about it is that there is no organization that sets standards for pool specifications, and a lot of pools you see around today have pump systems from the 70s and 80's still...I worked in the pool industry for 5 years, thats how i know this
 

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This should not still be happening. This is not the first time it has happened. In fact this type of thing happened all too frequently years ago and new safety specifications were made when it came to building pools. If this pool was not in within code for the public, this is an incident where they should definitely be sued.
Are you sure about this grace? I think there are specs for NEW pools, but they aren't hard and fast rules, jsut reccommendations I believe, but there was no laws or rules about shutting down old pools that didnt follow such specs
 

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Are you sure about this grace? I think there are specs for NEW pools, but they aren't hard and fast rules, jsut reccommendations I believe, but there was no laws or rules about shutting down old pools that didnt follow such specs
No, I am not sure to the legalities of it. All I know for sure is what I've been told from my friends husband that works in the pool industry.

And also, if memory serves me correctly I remember them showing these grate like things that were made to be placed over suction holes to keep this from happening.

Common sense to me would say that pool companies don't want to be sued and that taking precaution in this matter, which is basically less than a hundred dollar modification, would be well worth their companies future.

From the sounds of it, this was not a new pool.
 

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the case i have heard of i specifically remember hearing about the baby sitting on the grating that covered the drain...not the drain pipe itself. but i guess it depends on how strong the suction is and how tbigt the grating is.
 

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I heard today it was a kiddie wading pool and that this girl is going to have to have a tube like thing coming out of her stomach for the rest of her life.
 

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I already heard this a few times. Why don't they do anything to prevent this from happening?
 
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