A nine-year-old girl drowned to death in a busy pool despite being surrounded by adults and other children.
Ava Rose McCourt was found ‘lying on the bottom’ of the deep end of the pool at the Clinton Mobile Home Resort in Tiffin, Ohio, by another child, after people noticed she was missing, according to police.
A woman pulled Ava out of the water and a bystander performed CPR. Ava was rushed to Mercy Tiffin Hospital, where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Ava had received swimming lessons just days before the tragic incident on June 28.
‘She was the most loving wonderful and thoughtful loving little angel we have ever met,’ states a GoFundMe page for her.
Christina Bryant, the partner and soon-to-be wife of Ava’s father, said the girl was using a noodle to float in the water. Bryant said she turned away from Ava for just a short moment.
Witnesses told police that Ava seemed to vanish within a minute and that they did not notice any splashing or signs of drowning.
Ava’s dad, Jesse McCourt, was fishing at a trailer park nearby at the time that she drowned.
Ava was set to begin fourth grade and was a good student who loved to dance and sing. She was eagerly awaiting her 10th birthday to be able to make her first video on YouTube.
‘She was so full of life,’ her aunt, Jaimee Sergent, told 13 Action News.
‘She never met a stranger in her whole life. She has so much love for everybody.’
Ava was visiting the pool with her father’s parther.
‘Our family is completely devastated by her sudden loss,’ states the GoFundMe page.
‘My brother and Christina and Kinsey weren’t prepared for such a loss so there wasn’t any life insurance.’
The GoFundMe page had raised more than $1,400 as of Tuesday evening.
Ava died more than a year-and-a-half after a three-year-old boy drowned at a Texas water park on a busy day after his mom allegedly was preoccupied on her phone for hours.
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