Boy Dies Beheaded

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Nearly two years after the 10-year-old boy Caleb Schwab lost his life decapitated on a slide in a Kansas water park, the investigators of the case would have determined that the attraction in which the tragic accident occurred was built in violation of basic safety standards..

As revealed in a recent report by The New York Times, the Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts company would have breached slide construction safety concepts and greatly expedited the manufacture of the attraction in order to impress the producers of the Xtreme Waterparks program of the Travel Channel.

Apparently, park officials would not have conducted sufficient tests to determine if the attraction was safe enough for its users. Furthermore, authorities have revealed that the slide was opened despite the fact that the designers themselves had serious concerns that someone might be injured.

Verrückt, name that had the attraction and that would be translated from German as “Loco” or “Insano”, opened its doors in July 2014. At least 14 people were injured on the slide, which was permanently closed when in August 2016 Little Caleb was ejected from the raft and hit a metal bar that decapitated him.

The New York newspaper note adds that Jeffrey W. Henry, one of the owners of Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts was arrested on the border with Mexico and faces multiple charges in the case of Schwab's death. The water park firm and COO Tyler Austin Miles were also charged by the Kansas prosecution with 20 criminal charges.

The slide, which was 170 feet high, was considered one of the highest in the world and also one of the fastest that existed.