Steilacoom has agreed to pay $15 million to the family of DJ McCutcheon, a 13-year-old boy who drowned while attending a summer camp in July 2022.
As summer begins and school lets out, children across Puget Sound are heading to summer camp. However, parents are concerned about the safety of their children, particularly when they are out in the water.The City of The settlement comes after DJ's family filed a lawsuit claiming negligence on the part of the camp.DJ McCutcheon attended the camp run by the Steilacoom Community Center at Florence Lake on Anderson Island. Although DJ could swim, he had never swum in open water before.
FOX 13 News reached out to the Washington State Department of Health, who said at "first glance, these are probably handled at the county or city level."The American Camping Association offers an accreditation process, but it is voluntary. The camp where DJ drowned was not accredited by the ACA."We want to believe that those camps are doing the right thing, but I do think we, as parents, have to be diligent," LeBank said.
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