This is a huge tragedy, and without knowing the updated information, I sincerely hope and pray that Hashem is Meracheim on this little boy(same age as my own grandson, so it is particularly gut-wrenching for me to read of this), and restores him to his parents in the best of health.
I don’t know what happened in this case, and how this child ended up in the pool, and I don’t mean for this to sound preachy, so please bear with me. This type of tragedy just underscores how very quickly a preventable tragedy can occur, and how children, even those being watched carefully, can still end up in trouble.
We are now Bein Hameitzarim, and it behooves each of us not to take for granted that our precious children and grandchildren will always have “a malach” watching over them, so we don’t have to.
Small children should not have any access to or be near pools without extremely vigilant, responsible people watching them EVERY SINGLE SECOND. It literally takes a fraction of a second for a tragedy to occur. Children have drowned even in kiddie pools in only a couple of inches of water.
I feel so sad for what the parents of this little boy are now going through. More important, I feel even sadder for the little boy, who did not recognize danger, and didn’t know what was happening to him. Hashem Yishmor. I hope we hear besoros tovos about him b’korov.