The Sharjah Misdemeanor Court sentenced the defendants in the case of negligence, which led to the drowning of a child in a swimming pool in a private school in Sharjah, forcing the school to pay 140,000 dirhams from the amount of legal fees and fining 5000 dirhams. The second accused, the sports teacher, and his assistant, To pay 30 thousand dirhams of the legal fees, and each of them also fined 5000 dirhams, and acquitted the rest of the defendants of the charges assigned to them.
The details of the case are due to the receipt of a communiqué by the Comprehensive Industrial Police Station informing the victim of the death of a four-year-old student as a result of drowning. The team was transferred to the school by the criminal investigation team and the investigation officer at the Shamil Industrial Police Station to investigate the causes and circumstances of the incident.
The Sharjah Misdemeanors Court confronted a private school in Sharjah, represented by its owner, with negligence by failing to take the necessary precautions in the swimming pool of the school campus to protect students from the danger of drowning in the swimming pool. Which prevented the students from falling into the swimming pool, leaving the doors to the swimming pool open without a lock, which led to the sinking of the child inside the swimming pool. The school owner denied the charge, stressing the safety and safety of the students swimming in the pool. Campus. The court also faced the second to sixth accused of the charges of causing the child's death error, which resulted from their neglect and violation of their profession, that they went out and failed to monitor the school's swimming pool to prevent students from reaching the pool or falling into it. Drowning, deny it.
During the investigations, the child's father had taken full responsibility for the incident of his son's drowning, as he informed them that his son was very active, did not mastered swimming, and that he had included the note in his file, but they neglected the safety procedures, causing his drowning and death. The caller received a call at about 10:30 am from the school. The speaker was using English. He informed him that his son was ill, without giving further details. Another contact was reported at Al-Qasimi Hospital.
He pointed out that he tried to communicate with the school to check on his child, but to no avail, so he sent his son a student at the University of Sharjah to the hospital until his arrival from Dhaid, to be informed of the death.
According to the minutes of the police investigations and the prosecution, the headmaster said that he was in a morning meeting when he was informed that a student was drowning in the swimming pool. He went to the clinic to check. The ambulance was then taken to the hospital, After the swimming pool, the students left the tub to the dressing room. During the switch, one of the victim's assistance was missing. I looked for him. Another teacher asked him to tell him that he had to be in the changing room and then found him in the swimming pool. , And began screaming, then came one of the accused He was taken to the clinic to provide the necessary help, and then transferred to the hospital, where attempts to revive him and then died.
5 of the defendants in the case faced the charge of causing the error in the child's death.