Girl, 4, found in Vaughan pool dies
Posted August 2, 2013 3:24 pm.
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VAUGHAN – A four-year-old girl who was pulled unconscious from a fitness centre pool in Vaughan on Tuesday has died, York Regional Police say.
Police said she was not breathing and had no pulse when she was pulled from the pool at the Pavilion Fitness Club near Dufferin Street and the Hwy. 407.
“The initial reports show that she was under the water for maybe a minute to two minutes,” Sgt. Clint Whitney said.
The York Regional Police homicide unit has taken over the investigation.
It is standard procedure that the homicide unit probes any death of a child under five years of age.
Sgt. Whitney said they are still trying to figure out what happened and need people who were at the fitness centre to contact them.
“Many of the parents who found out about this attended the scene quickly and took their kids and got out,” Sgt. Whitney said. “So there are a lot of folks who left already that we need to speak to.”
Police said someone spotted the girl underwater around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday.
A staff member immediately performed CPR until an ambulance arrived.
Police are investigating whether a lifeguard or adult supervisor was in charge when the girl went under.
