The Waterbury, Connecticut, Boy's and Girl's Club has been ordered to pay $12.3 million to the mother of a 5-year-old girl drowning victim.
Brianna Murray, a kindergartner at Wendell Cross Elementary School, was at the Boy's and Girl's with about 30 other children on June 9, 2008 when she went under water and she was not pulled out until another child who was in the pool called for a lifeguard to help, according to the law firm representing Brianna's family.
She was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, then flown to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she died after being declared brain dead.
The lawsuit, filed in September 2009, claimed the club failed to properly train its lifeguards, failed to have the proper number of guards on duty and failed to have a proper emergency plan.
