Caon City boy, 4, accidentally drowns

The drowning of a 4-year-old boy at a day care facility in Caon City has launched an investigation by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.

The drowning happened around noon on Wednesday in the 1300 block of South 12th Street in the Lincoln Park area on the south side of Caon City.

The boy, identified as Riddick Boling, had reportedly been playing with a number of children in a large above-ground swimming pool in the back yard of a private-residence daycare. A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office said the daycare provider heard the children yelling and ran to the pool as the other children were pulling Riddick from the pool.

Rescuers performer CPR on Riddick until he was transported by ambulance to St. Thomas More Hospital, but efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.

An autopsy was ordered to confirm the cause of death.

KRDO Newschannel 13 looked into Department of Human Services record for the day care and found several problems.

The day care home is licensed to Leslie Grayson.

Grayson’s day care was the subject of a Stage 2 investigation in September 2008.

The report states that the facility was taking care of more infants than it was allowed, was two allowing school-age children to be at the facility when they should have been in class, and had an unsecured trampoline, basement and fireplace facility.

According to the licensing report, the facility was last inspected in September 2011.

Fremont County sheriff’s investigators do consider the boy’s death an accident. They said it’s important to supervise children when they are swimming because even a small body of water can be deadly.

“A backyard pool can be as dangerous as the larger public pools,” said Captain Dan Pinover with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office. “Even a wading pool can be fatal.”

Pinover said the Sheriff’s Office won’t speculate on speculate on possible charges for the daycare owner or any employee if they are found to be negligent in Boling’s death.