Girl gets intestines sucked out

[caniseeyourtaint]

Just....Owwwww!


MINNEAPOLIS — A six-year-old girl has been hospitalized after a horrifying accident at a swimming pool, when she sat on an open drain and a powerful suction pump tore out part of her intestinal tract. A surgeon told the family Wednesday that part of her intestines had been lost.
Abigail Taylor was severely injured Tuesday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club (javascript:siteSearch('Minneapolis Golf Club');), according to a posting by her family on the Caring Bridge Web site.
The posting, which has since been taken down, said it is a "medical miracle" that Taylor is still alive.
Taylor is listed in serious condition at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis (javascript:siteSearch('Children's Hospital in Minneapolis');). Bob Bennett, an attorney representing the family, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press (javascript:siteSearch('St. Paul Pioneer Press');) she was conscious and able to speak late Tuesday but that she faces a series of surgeries with uncertain results.
Bennett alleged that the swimming pool's drain hole was improperly uncovered. An official at the golf club expressed sympathy for the family and said he didn't think anything was wrong with the pool, but referred questions to the club's attorney, who declined to comment.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288182,00.html

[NightStalker3]

Her annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssss.

[Creampier]

Awww man, my sphincter is tingling just reading this story!! I can't really find anything funny to say about this. If it was an adult, I'd prolly loff and loff. But it's sad when it's an unwitting child.

[grail]

That's straight out of the "Gutless" chapter in Palahnuik's book Haunted. Sorry for the kid. No more corn for her ever.

[DanaReevesLungs]

Does this mean she'll never allow anyone to have anal with her?

[SatansCheerledr]

Does this mean she'll never allow anyone to have anal with her?

Yea, to much butt trauma.

[ruckstande]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck. My asshole hurts now.

[BravoSierra]

That's straight out of the "Gutless" chapter in Palahnuik's book Haunted. Sorry for the kid. No more corn for her ever.

I was just gonna say that. This shit actually happens?

[WhiteHonkyDevil]

That's straight out of the "Gutless" chapter in Palahnuik's book Haunted. Sorry for the kid. No more corn for her ever.

Heh. Maybe she was diving for pearls.

[DC Chick]

I think this has gone on as long as there have been pools. As a kid (early 80s) I wouldn't go near the kiddie pools because of news stories about children who sat on the drain and it sucked their insides out.

I just did a google search with "pool drain intestines" and lots of stories came up. The oldest I saw was 1991, but it's been going on longer than that.

[sknight]

Does this mean she'll never allow anyone to have anal with her?

I thought the same thing.


FRRRRRRRUNKIS!

[wes mantooth]

That's really sad. Maybe they can get John Edwards to represent them. A similar case in NC was his biggest payday:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards

In 1993, Edwards began his own firm in Raleigh (now known as Kirby & Holt) with a friend, David Kirby. He became known as the top plaintiffs' attorney in North Carolina. The biggest case of his legal career was a 1997 product liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, the manufacturer of a defective pool drain cover. The case involved a three-year-old girl who was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover other children at the pool had removed, after the swim club had failed to install the cover properly. Despite 12 prior suits with similar claims, Sta-Rite continued to make and sell drain covers lacking warnings. Sta-Rite protested that an additional warning would have made no difference because the pool owners already knew the importance of keeping the cover secured. In his closing arguments, Edwards spoke to the jury for an hour and a half without referring to notes. It was an emotional appeal that made reference to his son, Wade, who had been killed shortly before testimony began in the trial. Mark Dayton, editor of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, would later call it "the most impressive legal performance I have ever seen." The jury awarded the family $25 million, the largest personal injury award in North Carolina history. The company settled for the $25 million while the jury was deliberating additional punitive damages, rather than risk losing an appeal. For their part in this case, Edwards and law partner David Kirby earned the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's national award for public service. The family said that they hired Edwards over other attorneys because he alone had offered to accept a smaller percentage as fee unless the settlement was unexpectedly high, while all of the other lawyers they spoke with said they required the full one-third fee. The size of the settlement was unprecedented and Edwards did receive the standard one-third plus expenses fee typical of contingency cases.

[BelatedAbortion]

Does this mean she'll never allow anyone to have anal with her?

That was the first thought that went through my head. Probably not?

[THE FEZ MAN]

you all beat me too it. it happens all the time. like those poor fellas that get their cocks stuck in the jacuzzi jets

[Jambi]

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=85951

By Scott Seroka
KARE-TV/NBC News Channel

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- Abigail Taylor is what doctors call a medical miracle. The six-year-old is sitting up, talking and fully aware that she nearly died last Friday in a horrific pool accident at the Minneapolis Golf Club's Kiddie Pool.

Abigail sat on the drain at the bottom of the pool and doctors say her bottom created suction on the drain. They say the strength of the suction from the drain pulled part of her small intestines out.

Her mom says Abbey somehow pulled herself off the drain and out of the pool before collapsing into the deep end of the regular pool.

"It's a medical miracle that she survived," Abigail's father Scott Taylor said.

The little girl was rushed to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Doctors operated for several hours before addressing the family.

"I immediately fell to me knees, my initial reaction was she hadn't survived," Taylor said.

But Abigail did survive, though her life will never be the same.

"She'll basically be on an I.V. That's how she'll receive all of her nutrition based on the fact that her small intestines are gone. She can't process food," Taylor said.

Taylor is talking to reporters to make sure other parents and pool owners are aware of the dangers lurking at the bottom of pools.

Taylor's lawyer says a missing drain cover may be what caused this incomprehensible accident.

The manager of the Minneapolis Golf Club says he wasn't aware of any problems with the pool.

"Whatever happens from this point forward, the fact that she's still with us is amazing. I don't know any other way to say that," Taylor concluded.

Abbey will remain in the hospital for at least a couple of weeks.