For three hours the camp officials searched for the 8-year-old girl, who was finally found drowned in the camp pool in Halkidiki – The irregularities
New information is coming to light about the drowning of the 8-year-old girl in a camping pool in Halkidiki.
The little girl may have been at the bottom of the pool for three hours and no one looked for her. The remarkable thing is that his sister was the first to start looking for it.
Then, the camp officials searched for the 8-year-old for 3 hours, before finding her in the pool, according to Sky citing police sources.
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There are also testimonies that the child did not go to eat in the dining room, that the group leader started looking for the child alone and then raised the alarm that he was lost.
More light on the case is expected to be shed by the testimonies of the of children who were near the little girl, who will give a statement to the police in the presence of their parents and a child psychologist.
The drowning happened before lunch
The 19-year-old group leader who was responsible for supervising the children allegedly admitted in her testimony that she was too late to notice the child's absence.
She herself admitted to the police that she never counted the children who came out of the swimming pool and realized that 8-year-old Angeliki was missing during lunch. Then he started looking for her alone, without informing the camp officials.
At the same time, the lifeguard claimed in her testimony that “she didn't see anyone in the pool and locked herself”.
Psychologically overwhelmed, the relatives of the unfortunate girl follow the statements of the workers, which, however, do not cover them.
“According to their (the workers') statements, they were present, but I don't think… how present can they be? I believe that the child drowned and no one saw him. At bath time and at some point he disappeared. We have been moving legally for a week, we will appoint someone”, says the minor's grandfather.
According to the forensic report, in the 8-year-old's stomach were found a few food residues, which were probably from her breakfast and consequently the little girl had not gone to the dining room with the other children to eat her lunch.
< p>Fact, meaning her drowning happened earlier than 1.15pm which was lunch time.
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It is recalled that by a unanimous decision of the Kassandra municipal committee, the operating licenses of the swimming pools of the camp, in which the 8-year-old drowned, were revoked.
One of the pools was not completely fenced, so a child could enter, while the second pool did not have the necessary equipment.
It was also found that:
- No person responsible for the operation of the pool had been appointed
- There were no life jackets and pole
- There were no depth markings
The pool was unfenced
The gap between the bushes of the pool fence, is one of the irregularities seen by the appointed expert in relation to the technical report of the pool.
The fence is with bush and has gaps, the STAR reported on Friday. A small child can easily pass through. So is about half the enclosure, and there are two other similar points. There is also a post about 50 cm next to the double entrance door, from which a small child can easily step and enter.
