Story archives - tag: "drowning"

Jane

While the other kids made a snowman and the adults conversed indoors, I slipped off the dock into the snowy lake and had to be my own hero at age 7.

tags: childhood lake drowning snow winter [add]

2012-01-05 11:17:27 / Rating: 172.75 /

I don't even know you but I will never forget you

Each time I buckle my young daughters life jacket, I can still see her mom, running, screaming across the sand as they try and revive her.

tags: childhood death drowning neglect swimming [add]

2008-07-30 14:39:31 / Rating: 494.5 /

Jamie

How many times did she have to be told: you don't leave a five-month-old alone in the bathtub?

tags: drowning dead child negligent babysitter [add]

2008-04-10 15:47:02 / Rating: 345.25 /