An 11-year-old girl was crushed in the yard by a wooden garden house. The boy died. The court found the owner of the property guilty of the tragedy and imposed on him a 10-month suspended prison sentence for a three-year probation period. He was also ordered to pay the injured party's parents a compensation of PLN 15,000.
The owner of the property, where the wooden play structure for children was located, was charged by the prosecutor with involuntarily causing the death of an 11-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty and filed a motion to voluntarily submit to punishment.
The verdict in this case was announced by the spokeswoman of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Radom, Aneta Góźdź.
Children were playing in the house
The tragedy occurred in August 2023. on one of the properties in the Orońsko commune (Szydłowiecki district). There was an approximately two-meter-high structure in the form of a wooden house on stilts with a plastic slide. Seven children aged 7 to 12 were playing inside.
At some point, the structure lost its stability and began to tilt. Some of the children jumped off, but when it completely collapsed, one of the elements hit the head of an 11-year-old boy. Despite resuscitation, the child died. The other participants in the game were not seriously hurt.
The structure is assembled incorrectly
The experts appointed by the investigators stated that the wooden structure had been well assembled by the property owner, but it had not been properly secured and permanently attached to the ground, which is why when a group of children were playing on it, the house swayed and overturned, and one of its elements fell on an 11-year-old boy.
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