A Georgia family is trying to cope with the sudden death of a 4-year-old who died in June during a swimming lesson, and they want to make sure if negligence was the cause that someone is held accountable.
Dori Scott said she signed up her son for the water safety class to protect him from drowning, but on the second day of the lessons, Israel “Izzy” Scott was found unresponsive in the Waynesboro pool where he was being taught.
Reports show a nurse on the scene attempted to perform CPR. Israel was taken to the hospital, where he later was pronounced dead.
The Scott family has been ripped apart by Israel’s tragic death. Dori Scott said their house will never be the same with Israel gone.
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“It’s rough because we do everything together,” Scott told Atlanta Black Star. “Mostly everything we do, we do it as a family, so anywhere we go, it’s like a part of us is missing. We put on faces, but we’re shattered and it just feels like something’s missing.”
Scott said Israel was “a little nervous” on June 13, his first day of swimming lessons. She posted a photo on Facebook of her “big boy” geared up in matching swim shorts and a shirt patterned with fish.
The proud mom, who often shared photos of her three children and husband with her social media friends, said Israel started to show a fondness for water.
Scott said Israel would gravitate to the water during their regular family vacations, so the couple decided it was time to sign him up for a water safety course. She heard about the swimming classes from a friend years before, and Israel’s older sister did lessons with the licensed instructor about three years ago, Scott said, so she felt like she could trust them with the toddler.
Still, Scott said she did not want to leave her son during the class, but parents were required to wait in another area until the end of the lesson. So, she sat in a car outside the home where classes were held near Augusta, waiting for the older of her two small sons to walk out at 11 a.m. He never did.
At about 10:55 a.m., a woman tapped on Scott’s car door and told her to “come get your baby.” The mother said it was “one of the worse moments of her life.”
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