Washington Boy Hospitalized after Being Buried in Sandbox (Boy Has Died)

Fox News ^ | March 9, 2008

[khnyny]

EVERETT, Wash. — A 10-year-old Everett area boy is listed in critical condition at Children's Hospital in Seattle after being buried in a sandbox by his playmates. The boy has been identified by his family as Cody Porter. His half brother, 30-year-old Joshua Quantrille, says Cody was playing with Quantrille's three sons and several other children on Saturday in the back yard of a home belonging to a family friend. There is a sandbox in the back yard, and Quantrille says his children told him Cody came up with the idea that they should bury him, head first, in the sand. Quantrille says the children came up with the idea from a cartoon they watch on television. Quantrille says Cody was buried about from his head to his chest. At some point, he began thrashing around, but the children apparently thought he was playing. Eventually they figured out that something was wrong. They pulled Cody out and called the adults inside the home, who administered CPR until an aid car arrived. Snohomish County Sheriff's deputies interviewed the five children who were in the sandbox with Cody.

[muawiyah]

Have seen it happen. Young girl about 3 years of age was getting her mouth packed with sand by her two older brothers, one about 6 and the other 8 or so.

They'd just moved into the neighborhood and the kids were loose while mom and dad unpacked a trailer.

I grabbed the little girl and ran her over to my water hose and washed the sand off and out ~ CPR was not needed fortunately, but a few minutes of that sort of thing and the little girl would have been dead.

This is why young children require adult supervision.

[Southerngl]

Oooh, I read it wrong. I guess I’m glad?

[Tuxedo]

Absolutely heartbreaking... what a way to lose a child...not like any way is a good way.. but jeez...