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Avoiding the trap: suction entrapment is an emotional issue fraught with frightening stories and costly litigation. But just how widespread is the problem and what should the aquatics industry do about it?
Miami attorney Michael Haggard wasn't sure the video would be effective.
Late on a Friday afternoon, days into the trial, jurors watched silent images of a debilitated young man being bathed by nurses and having his lungs suctioned out.
"They saw 11 minutes of his life," says Haggard about his client, Lorenzo Peterson, a teen who once spent every afternoon fishing with his friends in Miami's canals and now spends his days in a vegetative state, unaware of the strangers who care for him.
In 2000, Peterson's arm got stuck in an uncovered drain at his family's Miami apartment complex pool. Despite the efforts of six adults to pull him free, ...
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