From the New York Post: A 3-year-old girl miraculously survived a freak accident involving a pool drain — which ripped out her small intestine during a family vacation in Mexico, according to a lawsuit.
Little Paloma Quatrini was just days away from celebrating her fourth birthday in Feb. 2025 when the protective covering of the drain in the kiddie pool at the Punta Mita Resort in Nayarit went haywire, sucking her in as she was sitting in the shallow end, according to the complaint obtained by People.
Paloma’s mom and dad, Carolina Velez and Adam Quatrini, frantically tried to pull their daughter away from the drain — but the force of the suction was too strong.
After two terrifying minutes, an off switch for the pump was finally located underneath the pool, and Paloma, now 5, was rushed to the hospital.
The little girl suffered sever internal damage, as the suction from the pool drain literally ripped her small intestine from her body.
The girl was flown to the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, where the family is from, where she underwent dozens of surgeries over the next several months, including a procedure to reconstruct her digestive system.
CBS News in Pittsburgh recently covered the case, and interviewed the family.
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