Intestine sucked out of girl

Deafilmedia · 07-07-2007, 02:52 PM

wcco.com - Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl

Jul 5, 2007 8:54 am US/Central

Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl

Heather Brown
Reporting

(WCCO) Minneapolis A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has been hospitalized after a horrific accident at a swimming pool.

Abigail Taylor was severely injured Friday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club.

Now Abigail's father has a warning to other families: Pool and hot tub drain accidents are a hidden danger that many of us don't understand.

Abigail has big brown eyes, a dazzling smile and at just 6 years old she has already competed in local swim meets.

"She loves to swim," said her father Scott Taylor.

Her love of swimming is why her family didn't think twice when she played at a kiddie pool at the family's golf club on Friday night.

Taylor said as Abigail was getting out of the pool, she fell.

"She more or less blacked out, she passed out, fell face-first onto the pool decking," he said. The family thought it was a seizure.

An ambulance rushed her to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Several hours later a surgeon said Abigail was lucky to be alive.

"The suction had caused a two-inch tear in her rectum and had basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestines, almost all of it," said Taylor.

Her father said a search of the pool filter turned up Abigail's intestine. He said Abigail was seriously wounded because the cover of the drain had been removed.

In most public pools the drain cover is screwed in and cannot be pulled off. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the pressure on some pool drains can be as strong as 300 pounds per square inch.

"It never even crosses anybody's mind that potential at the bottom of that pool is enough force to literally disembowel a child, an adult," said Taylor.

Abigail will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life and will have to have a colostomy bag.

"We view it as a miracle that she's still with us," her father said.

She is improving. Wednesday morning she stunned her family by asking a question.

"She said, 'Am I going to be on the news?' She said, 'Why do you ask?' She said, 'Because I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else,'" recalled Taylor.

Since 1990, 170 people, mostly children, have been caught in drains and 27 of them have died. Legislation is pending that would require pools and hot tubs to have multiple drains to ease the suction.

Some pools have a safety vacuum cutoff which shuts down if someone is trapped. New drain covers which cost less than $50 can also help.

According to the Associated Press, 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.

LakeTahoe · 07-07-2007, 03:02 PM

It happened few days ago. Sad but I am glad she is ok!!! WHEW! If we own a pool, I will MAKE SURE the drain cover is stay on if not, no one allow to swim till I put new one on it. For safety!!!

shel90 · 07-07-2007, 03:05 PM

Oh my!!! Yea, I am glad she is alive but have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life? That's terrible and I hope she can adapt to it without any further complications. Oh man..

Texan Guy · 07-07-2007, 03:10 PM

Oh, geez. That's gotta to be sucks.

Lil_country_gal · 07-07-2007, 03:21 PM

Now in the state of minnesota they are trying to make it a law that you have to get your pool and sauna's checked because of this incident she has to have a feeding tube and is still in critical condition but they say she's doing better

Deafilmedia · 07-07-2007, 03:37 PM

Maybe somebody removed the lid...

I wondered if the parents will sue the pool manager.

LuciaDisturbed · 07-07-2007, 04:39 PM

Poor girl! My heart goes out to her and her family!

***VamPyroX*** · 07-09-2007, 11:16 AM

I remember a similar story years ago from a girl who had her guts sucked out in a hot tub.

sr171soars · 07-09-2007, 08:29 PM

What a sad and frightening story! I'm upset for the girl.

What I don't understand is why should be any drain (at bottom of pool) in operation during swimming season or at least when people are in the water? All drain(s) as such should be in the skimmer boxes along the sides of the pool period. They are much safer in those locations. The drain(s) at the bottom should only be used when one is actually draining the pool.

Banjo · 07-09-2007, 08:33 PM

sr171soars said it for me.

(shudders)

Sheila · 07-10-2007, 02:50 PM

Wow. Terrible. Hope everything goes well in the future for them!

Dark-Half · 07-13-2007, 08:53 PM

I'm going to tell my neice about pool monsters when she grows up. I'll tell her they dwell in the drain and try to suck cute little girls guts out their rear end if they get near. Hm, she'll probably be scared shitless (no pun intended) of pool drains after that...

SnAzZyStyLe2002 · 07-13-2007, 09:03 PM

Ick.

*shudders*

chingxho · 07-23-2007, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark-Half

I'm going to tell my neice about pool monsters when she grows up. I'll tell her they dwell in the drain and try to suck cute little girls guts out their rear end if they get near. Hm, she'll probably be scared shitless (no pun intended) of pool drains after that...

Roflmao.

sequoias · 07-23-2007, 04:13 AM

Ouch, but I'm glad she is lucky to be alive from that accident. That force sure was powerful!

LakeTahoe · 03-21-2008, 04:09 PM

Disembowelment girl died

I saw this on CNN earlier, and I remembered we talked about it last year. That's so sad!

OMAHA, Neb. -- A 6-year-old girl who underwent a rare transplant surgery after her intestines were sucked out in a swimming pool has died in an Omaha hospital.

Doctor Says Abigail Among Oldest Patients

Abigail Taylor's family said she died Thursday evening. Bob Bennett is an attorney for the Taylor family. He said Abigail's parents were with her when she died at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
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NMC's Paul Baltes confirmed to KETV NewsWatch 7 that Abigail died at the hospital, where she has been under care since the operation. Baltes was not sure whether an autopsy or exact cause of death would be released to the public.

Abigail was injured when she sat on a pool drain, and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract on June 29. She underwent transplant surgery in December at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas.

University of Nebraska Medical Center Chief of Transplantation Dr. Alan Langas said in December that Abigail was one of the oldest patients he's seen to receive such a transplant. Langas said at the time many transplant patients are under age 2 and some are even less than a year old.

The girl's father said she was "in and out of it" after the transplant.

After the injury, Abigail had to get her nourishment through an intravenous tube. If successful, the transplant should have allowed her to eat just like any other kid.

She later suffered setbacks, including a cancerous condition sometimes triggered by organ transplants.

In 2006, there were 96 pediatric small bowel transplants performed at 16 medical centers in the United States, according to UNMC. The busiest program was Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, performing 22 and the second busiest program was The Nebraska Medical Center, performing 14. The Nebraska Medical Center has performed about 4,800 solid organ transplants since the transplant program started in 1985.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported in November that Taylor's family filed suit against the pool manufacturer and the Minneapolis Golf Club.

"The suit blamed both the club, located in St. Louis Park, Minn, and Sta-Rite Industries, a pool equipment manufacturer owned by a Golden Valley company, for the accident, in which 21 feet of Abigail Taylor's small intestine were sucked out when she landed on an uncovered suction outlet in the kiddie pool in June," the paper reported.

In December, President George W. Bush signed The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2007, according to SafeKids.net. The legislation provides incentives for states to adopt comprehensive pool safety laws that will protect children from life-threatening injuries and deaths from potentially dangerous pool and spa drains.

Reba · 03-21-2008, 04:26 PM

So sad!

Dixie · 03-21-2008, 08:13 PM

Oh man. No words could ever express the loss the parents are feeling right now.

shel90 · 03-21-2008, 08:16 PM

Poor little girl! My thoughts and condolences go out to the family..

07-07-2007, 02:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Deafilmedia Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,579	Intestine sucked out of girl wcco.com - Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl Jul 5, 2007 8:54 am US/Central Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl Heather Brown Reporting (WCCO) Minneapolis A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has been hospitalized after a horrific accident at a swimming pool. Abigail Taylor was severely injured Friday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club. Now Abigail's father has a warning to other families: Pool and hot tub drain accidents are a hidden danger that many of us don't understand. Abigail has big brown eyes, a dazzling smile and at just 6 years old she has already competed in local swim meets. "She loves to swim," said her father Scott Taylor. Her love of swimming is why her family didn't think twice when she played at a kiddie pool at the family's golf club on Friday night. Taylor said as Abigail was getting out of the pool, she fell. "She more or less blacked out, she passed out, fell face-first onto the pool decking," he said. The family thought it was a seizure. An ambulance rushed her to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Several hours later a surgeon said Abigail was lucky to be alive. "The suction had caused a two-inch tear in her rectum and had basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestines, almost all of it," said Taylor. Her father said a search of the pool filter turned up Abigail's intestine. He said Abigail was seriously wounded because the cover of the drain had been removed. In most public pools the drain cover is screwed in and cannot be pulled off. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the pressure on some pool drains can be as strong as 300 pounds per square inch. "It never even crosses anybody's mind that potential at the bottom of that pool is enough force to literally disembowel a child, an adult," said Taylor. Abigail will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life and will have to have a colostomy bag. "We view it as a miracle that she's still with us," her father said. She is improving. Wednesday morning she stunned her family by asking a question. "She said, 'Am I going to be on the news?' She said, 'Why do you ask?' She said, 'Because I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else,'" recalled Taylor. Since 1990, 170 people, mostly children, have been caught in drains and 27 of them have died. Legislation is pending that would require pools and hot tubs to have multiple drains to ease the suction. Some pools have a safety vacuum cutoff which shuts down if someone is trapped. New drain covers which cost less than $50 can also help. According to the Associated Press, 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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LakeTahoe ~~SUMMER!!!~~ Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Lost somewhere on the Earth! Posts: 11,586	It happened few days ago. Sad but I am glad she is ok!!! WHEW! If we own a pool, I will MAKE SURE the drain cover is stay on if not, no one allow to swim till I put new one on it. For safety!!! __________________ My fairy name is Bramble Elfglitter LakeTahoe

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shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 12,478 Blog Entries: 1	Oh my!!! Yea, I am glad she is alive but have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life? That's terrible and I hope she can adapt to it without any further complications. Oh man.. __________________ ~Shel~

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Deafilmedia Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,579	Maybe somebody removed the lid... I wondered if the parents will sue the pool manager.

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sr171soars Cyborg since March '05 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 2,377	What a sad and frightening story! I'm upset for the girl. What I don't understand is why should be any drain (at bottom of pool) in operation during swimming season or at least when people are in the water? All drain(s) as such should be in the skimmer boxes along the sides of the pool period. They are much safer in those locations. The drain(s) at the bottom should only be used when one is actually draining the pool. __________________ But trailing clouds of glory till He comes... Foolishness is not a virtue

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Banjo Mr. Movie Guy Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,828 Blog Entries: 1	sr171soars said it for me. (shudders)

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Sheila Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 302	Wow. Terrible. Hope everything goes well in the future for them! __________________ "An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted." -Claude Arrau Deaf Love

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Dark-Half Amor fati Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Idaho. Posts: 852	I'm going to tell my neice about pool monsters when she grows up. I'll tell her they dwell in the drain and try to suck cute little girls guts out their rear end if they get near. Hm, she'll probably be scared shitless (no pun intended) of pool drains after that... __________________ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

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SnAzZyStyLe2002 The Grim Reaper Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Somewhere in a galaxy far far away Posts: 249	Ick. shudders __________________ ~Snazzy Style 2002 Currently dual-booting Windows XP Pro SP3 and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 on 2 hard drive partitions on the same computer. Now have a server computer, so currently dual-booting Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.

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sequoias Swifty the Rat Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: The Evergreen State Posts: 10,942	Ouch, but I'm glad she is lucky to be alive from that accident. That force sure was powerful! __________________ created by seq

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Reba Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 15,578	So sad!

03-21-2008, 04:09 PM	#16 (permalink)
LakeTahoe ~~SUMMER!!!~~ Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Lost somewhere on the Earth! Posts: 11,586	Disembowelment girl died I saw this on CNN earlier, and I remembered we talked about it last year. That's so sad! OMAHA, Neb. -- A 6-year-old girl who underwent a rare transplant surgery after her intestines were sucked out in a swimming pool has died in an Omaha hospital. Doctor Says Abigail Among Oldest Patients Abigail Taylor's family said she died Thursday evening. Bob Bennett is an attorney for the Taylor family. He said Abigail's parents were with her when she died at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. sponsor NMC's Paul Baltes confirmed to KETV NewsWatch 7 that Abigail died at the hospital, where she has been under care since the operation. Baltes was not sure whether an autopsy or exact cause of death would be released to the public. Abigail was injured when she sat on a pool drain, and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract on June 29. She underwent transplant surgery in December at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas. University of Nebraska Medical Center Chief of Transplantation Dr. Alan Langas said in December that Abigail was one of the oldest patients he's seen to receive such a transplant. Langas said at the time many transplant patients are under age 2 and some are even less than a year old. The girl's father said she was "in and out of it" after the transplant. After the injury, Abigail had to get her nourishment through an intravenous tube. If successful, the transplant should have allowed her to eat just like any other kid. She later suffered setbacks, including a cancerous condition sometimes triggered by organ transplants. In 2006, there were 96 pediatric small bowel transplants performed at 16 medical centers in the United States, according to UNMC. The busiest program was Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, performing 22 and the second busiest program was The Nebraska Medical Center, performing 14. The Nebraska Medical Center has performed about 4,800 solid organ transplants since the transplant program started in 1985. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported in November that Taylor's family filed suit against the pool manufacturer and the Minneapolis Golf Club. "The suit blamed both the club, located in St. Louis Park, Minn, and Sta-Rite Industries, a pool equipment manufacturer owned by a Golden Valley company, for the accident, in which 21 feet of Abigail Taylor's small intestine were sucked out when she landed on an uncovered suction outlet in the kiddie pool in June," the paper reported. In December, President George W. Bush signed The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2007, according to SafeKids.net. The legislation provides incentives for states to adopt comprehensive pool safety laws that will protect children from life-threatening injuries and deaths from potentially dangerous pool and spa drains. __________________ My fairy name is Bramble Elfglitter LakeTahoe

03-21-2008, 08:16 PM	#19 (permalink)
shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 12,478 Blog Entries: 1	Poor little girl! My thoughts and condolences go out to the family.. __________________ ~Shel~

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