A 6-year-old boy is in the hospital after being found unresponsive at the bottom of a swimming pool at the University of the District of Columbia, according to a campus police report.
UDC police were called to the pool at the E.B. Henderson Sports Complex shortly after 1 p.m. Monday. D.C. police and D.C. Fire and EMS crews were already providing emergency care when campus officers arrived.
Emergency crews stabilized the child and took him to Children’s National Hospital at about 1:21 p.m. Dominique Calhoun, the attorney for the boy’s family, told Â鶹¹ÙÍø on Wednesday the child remains intubated.
“Unfortunately, his parents are going to the hospital every day and seeing their 6-year-old baby in a hospital bed with tubes in him,” Calhoun said.
A UDC lifeguard manager told police he had left the facility for lunch and returned shortly before the emergency. He said no lifeguard was on duty when the child was found and estimated that roughly 30 children were in the pool at the time.
The child was participating in a , organized by FourSoccer, being held on a field next to the building, police said.
“What happened at this camp? How did 30 kids end up in a pool unsupervised when that camp promised supervision for everyone,” Calhoun said. “We don’t know the story yet, and we’re still trying to figure out all the facts.”
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A camp counselor told investigators he went into the water after learning the boy was submerged but was unable to pull him out because he was “too heavy,” according to a police report.
Head coach Benjamin Mortimer, who is also the director for FourSoccer, then jumped into the pool, removed the child and performed CPR until D.C. Fire and EMS personnel took over, the report said.
In a statement, UDC said it was “reviewing the circumstances surrounding the incident. While that review is underway, we cannot comment on personnel matters or discuss the camper’s condition out of respect for the family’s privacy. The pool at UDC’s athletic complex is closed pending completion of the university’s review.”
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