By Stacks / The Law firm
The news that police have charged the owner of a backyard pool
with manslaughter after a toddler wandered into his garden and
drowned should ring alarm bells for all home owners.
It is understood to be the first case of its kind in Australia.
According to reports the owner of the house with the pool was
inside his Armidale home watching TV when unknown to him a two year
old boy wandered into his back yard.
The boy had been with his mother nearby and walked off when she
wasn't looking "for a second". Reports said somehow
the toddler got through the inadequate fencing the man had around
his dilapidated pool and fell in.
After a two month investigation police charged the owner of the
house with manslaughter saying he had not adequately fenced the
pool as he was required to do by law.
