The Parents Of The Decapitated Child Speak

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

Six months after the tragedy that destroyed their lives, the parents of the boy Caleb Schwab, who died beheaded on a slide in a Kansas City amusement park, spoke for the first time about the horrible moment they lived through.

In a moving interview with the Good Morning America (ABC) program, the family said they were still "very hurt" by what happened. "Six [people] went to the park and five returned home," said the father of the 10-year-old Scott Schwab, moved.

"Before they fell [down the slide] I told them: 'Children stay together,'" the father continued in his shocking account. "And [Caleb] said, 'I know, Dad.'"

The first to go down the Schlitterbahn water park attraction was Nathan, 12, the boy's older brother. Then came Caleb, who sped down the fearsome Verrückt slide, which in German means "crazy" or "insane," and was considered the highest in the world.

Nathan, who was waiting for his brother at the end of the slide, started shouting "He flew out of the Verrückt, he flew out of the Verrückt!" Recalled the mother, Michelle. Hearing his son's screams, he wanted to get closer to the site, but a man prevented him from passing by saying "no, believe me, it is better not to continue."

The tragedy that occurred on August 9 shook the country and exposed the media's attention to the family, who had to deal with the interest of the press, a legal battle with the park and their mourning for the loss of little Caleb.

Finally, the family reached an agreement with the park's owners on Saturday for an undisclosed sum that will benefit little Caleb's three brothers.

"It is an accident, but there is responsibility because someone was negligent," the minor's father told the program.

Regarding how they are trying to get ahead, the Schwabs assured that the first thing is to keep the memory of their son alive. "We have a card card from all over the world and we just want people to know that we are still very hurt, but that we will be fine."

The process, he stressed, is not easy, and he acknowledged that sometimes it is impossible for them to watch his son's videos. "And there are other times when you can't sleep and all you want to do is look at it," he added.