Abigail Taylor.

Something I read while reading wiki on "Unusual Deaths."

Abigail Rose Taylor (died March 20, 2008) was a young girl from Edina, Minnesota whose accidental injury and eventual death led to new US federal legislation to improve the safety of swimming pools.

On June 29, 2007, Taylor's parents took her to the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park. She was paddling unsupervised when she sat on the open drain of a wading pool and her buttocks were sucked onto the aperture. The suction tore out a large section of her intestinal tract through her rectum.

Taylor lost 21 feet (6.4 metres) of her small intestine in the accident, leaving her with short bowel syndrome. Following the accident, Taylor was hospitalized, and received transplants of her small intestine, liver and pancreas. She was unable to eat or drink, and required total parenteral nutrition. She died at the age of six due to complications resulting from her injuries.

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Unusual, and sad. Lesson learnt, teach your kids not to stick their arses in the swimming pool vacuum port. >.<

And at one point in my life when a chain e-mail was being sent out about this girl, i didn't believe it. =\