US: A lawsuit follows the tragic death of an 8-year-old in a hotel swimming pool in Houston

The corpse of an 8-year-old child, who had been swimming with her family at a Houston hotel, was discovered within a huge conduit for a lazy river. Houston police are now looking into the incident.

At the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Aliyah Jaico’s death on Saturday was determined to be an accidental drowning. It said that she passed away from mechanical asphyxia, which is the stopping of breathing by an item or physical force. The autopsy report is still awaited. The child was discovered “inside a large pipe in the pool area,” according to the police, and paramedics declared her dead.

Her mother, Jose Daniela Jaico Ahumada, filed a complaint against the hotel on Monday, claiming that the kid was drawn into an unguarded gap in the pool’s flow system that measured between 12 and 16 inches (30 and 40 cm) in width. “To extract her, they had to break up concrete, cut pipe, it was just horrible,” Richard Nava, the mother’s lawyer, said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Along with Hilton Worldwide Holdings, the Doubletree by Hilton Houston Brookhollow is mentioned as a defendant in the complaint, where the family was lodging. A Hilton representative expressed their condolences for the girl’s death while pointing out that a third company separately owns and runs the property. According to the spokesman, Hilton has not received legal notice and does not comment on cases that are still proceeding.

An attempt to reach a lawyer who, according to a Hilton representative, represented the hotel’s owners was met with no response on Tuesday. In this case, Ahumada said that she had hired the hotel to allow her family to spend a day swimming, something Aliyah cherished.