Thirteen-year-old twins rescue friend from pool
Published: July 17, 2005
Luke and Lance Dupuy saw the whole thing.
They were there when Jeremy Robinson, 11, bounded up the steps to the pool slide and slipped down it into the cool blue water.
So when Robinson did not surface the boys had no trouble spotting him at the botton of the pool.
“Luke said he could tell something was wrong,” said Holli Dupuy, the twins’ mother. “He said, ‘Give me your hand,’ but Jeremy went down to the bottom of the pool.”
After the twins dragged Robinson onto the concrete path beside the pool, the little boy’s eyes were shut tight. When Lance Dupuy tried to open them, he saw they were rolled behind his head, Holli Dupuy said.
“He said, ‘Come on, Jeremy. Come on Jeremy. Please be OK.’ That was when all the blood came out” of his mouth, the mother said.
On Saturday Robinson remained in critical condition at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman Larry Weidel said juvenile detectives who investigated the incident found that Robinson has severe asthma. The 11-year-old had been active all day with his friends, so by the time he went swimming Tuesday night, he was spent, Weidel said.
Although it did not appear Robinson was under water for long, one of the boy’s lungs collapsed by the time he reached the hospital. The second collapsed while doctors were working on him.
Robinson was put in a medically induced coma and remains in the intensive-care unit at Children’s Hospital, Weidel said.
“I think his lungs were weak and being in nine-feet of water just collapsed them,” Weidel said.
The family that owns the pool where the incident took place refused comment.
Holli Dupuy said the family routinely allows neighborhood children to swim in their pool.
The investigation of the incident was completed and no charges were filed, Weidel said
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