People on the jetty and in the water at Kuusijärvi Beach in Vantaa on 28 July 2024. On 26 July, two children, a seven-year-old boy and four-year-old girl, were found lifeless in the water. The boy has since been confirmed dead, while the girl remains in hospital care in critical condition. (Mikko Stig – Lehtikuva)
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OFFICERS at Eastern Uusimaa Police Department have opened a pre-trial investigation into an incident in which two children were found lifeless in the water at a beach in Vantaa, Southern Finland.
Police on Friday revealed that the older of the children, a seven-year-old boy, has died, while his four-year-old sister remains in hospital care in critical condition.
Their parents, the press release indicates, are provisionally suspected of abandonment, negligent homicide and negligent infliction of bodily injury. Abandonment is defined in the criminal code as rendering someone helpless or abandoning someone helpless while being responsible for them, thereby endangering their life or health.
Neither the lifeguards nor other bystanders at the beach are suspected of any crimes.
“The children had been by the water and drowned. We’re now looking into how the parents instructed and supervised the children at the beach,” Krista Vallila, the officer in charge of the pre-trial investigation at Eastern Uusimaa Police Department, commented to Helsingin Sanomat on Friday.
The two children were found lifeless in the water late in the afternoon of Friday, 26 July. They received first aid and were rushed to hospital.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, earlier reports indicate that the children had been in the wading area of the beach with their two-year-old sibling and father. The children left the wading area and jumped from the jetty into the deeper side without their father noticing. They were discovered in the deeper side after reportedly being underwater for almost 20 minutes.
Also the mother was at the beach on the day of the incident.
The incident took place at Kuusijärvi Beach, which is located in an eastern section of the city adjacent to Sipoonkorpi National Park.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT
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Source: www.helsinkitimes.fi
