A 6-year-old girl from Edina, Minn., survived after sitting over an open drain in a wading pool and having most of her small intestine sucked out of her body.
Abigail Taylor sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club last Friday. According to a posting by her family on the Caring Bridge Web site, the drain's powerful suction tore out part of her intestinal tract. (The posting had been removed from the site as of this writing.)
According to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, the girl's father, Scott Taylor, said the suction from the uncovered drain ripped a two-inch tear in her rectum and "basically disemboweled her by pulling out her small intestine, almost all of it."
Abigail now has a permanent colostomy and will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life.
The Consumer Products Safety Commission says "the suction from a pool drain can be so powerful that it can hold an adult under water, but most entrapment incidents involve children."
As the weather heats up, a horrible accident at a wading pool in Minnesota reminds swimmers to beware of open pool drains.
