FALL RIVER (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The body of a Fall River woman was discovered floating in a state run pool late Tuesday night, two days after she apparently drowned in that same pool. Police say lifeguards were on duty and people were swimming in the Veterans Memorial pool at Lafayette Park Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and it appears no one noticed the dead body. Police say Joseph was watching her 9-year-old neighbor at the pool on Sunday when she apparently had an accident sliding down a waterside. Family friends tell FOX25 the little boy told lifeguards that she did not come up from above water but no action was taken. The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), who runs the pool, has since closed all 30 of their deepwater pools until further notice.
You know who's getting a bad rap here (besides the idiot lifeguards who deserve it), this 9 year old kid. Like every report I've watched this morning phrases it as "the 9 year old child supposedly told a lifeguard", or "the 9 year old allegedly..." Allegedly, people? What the hell does this 9 year old have to lie about? Put yourself in his shoes for a second.
You're 9, you just got finished peeing in the public pool, because that's what 9 year old's do. You get out of the pool ready to go ask your babysitter for a towel and a snack, look around, cant find her. You look in the pool (because that's the common sense thing to do) and see her floating down the bottom of the deep end, and run and tell the lifeguard.
From there its out of this kids hands, he told the lifeguard, lifeguard apparently chose not to believe him , and frankly, I'm puzzled as to where the story goes from here. So many odd questions:
How did this 9 year old get home? Presumably his parents wondered where his babysitter was that night, no? How did it take two days for people to go looking for her? Why didn't this lifeguard just take a peek at the pool when the kid brought it to his attention? This isn't a log of poop that may or may not be a snickers bar, its a person, maybe someone should check it out? How murky is the water in this pool, do they ever use chlorine or shock? Because in my families pool a body floating in the deep end would be a visible, alarming sight. What about the other kids who swam in the pool for two whole days before she was noticed? Did they think the dead body was a clever prop?
