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Mum demands answers after son, 4, drowns on first day at kindy

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She accuses the kindergarten of negligence in not monitoring her son, who fell into a swimming pool next door on his first trial day at the kindergarten.

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D Nilaveni narrating what happened to her son, V Thanes Nair, on his first day at the kindergarten. (Bernama pic)

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A woman has accused a private kindergarten here of being negligent in caring for her four-year-old son on his first day there, when he fell into a swimming pool next door, resulting in his death six days later.

The woman, D Nilaveni, 40, a trader, said the kindergarten had yet to explain the actual reason for her son, V Thanes Nair, being found unconscious in the adult swimming pool on April 17.

She said it was her son’s first day attending a trial class at the kindergarten.

“Only when my son was at the Chemor health clinic was I contacted and told that my son had fallen down.

“However, I wasn’t told that my child had actually fallen into a swimming pool,” she told reporters today.

She said she did not know that the premises next door had a swimming pool.

Nilaveni said her son was later sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, but claimed that he was already in a critical condition then.

Her son died at 10.30am today, six days after the incident.

“I am very disappointed because my son was not immediately sent by ambulance for treatment and the kindergarten failed to monitor and take care of my son, who was only four years old, when he was on their premises.

“How did my son, who was supposed to be under supervision, get to the swimming pool area?”

Thanes is the only child of Nilaveni and her husband, V Vijay, 43.

She urged the authorities to investigate what happened to him that day.

Nilaveni and her husband lodged a police report a day after the incident (April 18).

The kindergarten, Kinder Labz, said in a statement today that the management and staff were working closely with the authorities.

“We can confirm that Thanes was attending a trial class at our school when the tragedy took place at about 10am.

“We have given our statements and provided all existing evidence, including CCTV (closed-circuit television) footage to the authorities to facilitate investigations into the matter,” it said.

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