8-year-old killed after getting drawn into hotel pool's piping
Newsy
The young girl died while swimming after she was "violently sucked" into a hotel swimming pool's piping, a lawsuit claims.
An 8-year-old girl was found dead inside of a Houston hotel's lazy river-style swimming pool, police said.
According to a press release from Houston Police, the girl was reported missing on Saturday around 5:45 p.m. at a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel. The girl's body was later found inside a large pipe in the pool area of the hotel, police said.
She was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday of an apparent drowning. Authorities said they will conduct an autopsy to confirm the cause of death.
WTRK-TV reported that the girl was identified as Aliyah Lynette Jaico. The outlet reported that her family filed a lawsuit alleging that the pool's piping was malfunctioning.
In court documents obtained by WTRK and filed in Harris County District Court on Monday, the family said they rented a room at the hotel because their daughter loves to swim. They said that while swimming, she "was violently sucked into a 12 to 16-inch unsecured open gap in the swimming pool flow system of the hotel’s lazy river."
