Posted on 09/22/2014 7:22:40 PM PDT by markomalley
A toddler found submerged in a tank of baptismal water in an Alabama church died of accidental drowning, the local coroner said on Monday.
Brayden King, who was two months shy of his second birthday, was under the supervision of a sister in her early teens when he fell into the tank on Friday at the Pentecostal House of Prayer in Decatur, about 75 miles north of Birmingham, said Morgan County Coroner Jeffrey Chunn.
The toddler was found in 33 inches of water and declared dead after unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him, Chunn said.
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Murphy’s Law!!
A teenager couldn’t pickup a two year old? Or summon help?
There was no one else in the church?
It was a Pentecostal church. The teen may have been thrashing about, yammering, weeping uncontrollably, shrieking, laughing or handling snakes. No time to babysit.
Yes, prayers for the child. Investigation for everyone else.
Between services... playing on a phone?
Sure. Playing angry birds while handling snakes is a tradition I am told.
Maybe I’m being cynical but the story doesn’t seem entirely plausible.
Prayers indeed.
I am disgusted by some of the comments on this thread.
You have never experienced the chaos that is a Pentecostal church?
Don’t hold back. And be specific.
Please explain how a teenager can not pull a two year old from two and a half feet of water.
"Under the supervision of a sister in her early teens" probably means not very closely supervised and not noticed immediately. It doesn't take long and you don't hear anything when they are in the water.
he was put in the water by someone and he was “found” there?
That suggests the person who put him in the tank left him there, that is NOT accidental
Inattention cost little brother his life.
The article says he fell in. Some churches, those that believe in full emersion baptism, have a very large, deep baptismal font, sometimes built into the architecture of the building. I’ve seen them before with a glass wall, elevated in behind the pulpit in certain types of churches, several feet deep and at least six feet across. Obviously, this one was not in full view. The teenage girl charged with minding the toddler became distracted, the toddler wandered off, found the baptismal font, fell in and drowned before the teenage girl noticed that he’d gotten out of sight.
I remember our Baptismal font when I was a kid, there was at least one locked door to reach it and then another door to get to the water. Also the tank was empty when not in use.
"A congregation is in mourning after a toddler drowned in a baptismal pool during a church event."The video will not play. I thought there might be a picture of the Baptismal.http://www.waff.com/clip/10611335/gods-got-his-little-angel
Maybe there had been a baptism that day. I honestly don’t know. You’d think it would be secured when not in use due to concern over this very sort of thing. Maybe it normally was. Tragic, regardless of what one thinks of Pentecostals or their church. I’ve known some who were fine people.
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