Child Drowns To Death

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

A 4-year-old boy died "drowned" in Houston, Texas, nearly a week after swimming with his father.

The boy's father, Francisco Delgado Jr., told local ABC 13 channel that he and his family had gone swimming at the breakwater in the nearby town of Texas City on Memorial Day weekend.

The following Saturday, her 4-year-old son Frankie suddenly woke up from sleep and began complaining of shoulder pain.

"Out of nowhere, he woke up saying 'Ahhhh'," recalled the father. "Then he gave his last breath and I didn't know what else to do."

The boy's mother, Tara, called 911 and paramedics arrived at his home almost immediately, but his swift intervention could do nothing to save the boy.

“I entered [the room]. I just looked at him there, on the floor,”recalls the troubled mother. "They were still working on it. And I was yelling, 'Let me touch my baby. Maybe he needs his mom's touch! '”

It was one of those paramedics who later explained to the parents that their son had "drowned dry."

"Their lungs were completely full of fluid, there was nothing they could do," said the boy's mother, who they called Baby Frankie and was a baseball fan.

Cases of "dry drowning" are very rare and happen hours, or even days, after a child inhales water.

"I've only seen a couple of these types of cases," Dr. Mark Morocco of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles told People. However, these rare deaths have garnered media attention in recent years.