A family vacation turned into a nightmare when a family could not find their 8-year-old daughter at the Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Houston.
She had been reported missing on Saturday at around 6 p.m. after being last seen at the hotel’s lazy river-style swimming pool.
Family members searched all over the hotel property for hours, and then when investigators reviewed security video, they saw the girl, Aliyah Jaico, in the pool, but she did not resurface.
The pool was then drained so they could check the pipes. Officials spent 13 hours searching the pool to discover that the 8-year-old had been sucked 20 feet into the pool pipe.
According to the medical examiner, the girl’s death was caused by drowning and mechanical asphyxia.
Officials reportedly said that the malfunctioning pool pipe was
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