A three-year-old boy in Bleckley County, Georgia tragically passed away after drowning in a home pool. The tragedy has renewed calls from safety officials for parents and carers to ensure that children wear properly fitted and correctly fastened life vests whenever they are in or around water.
James Joseph Farland Jr., aged three, died on Sunday at Bleckley Memorial Hospital after an incident involving a residential swimming pool on Limestone Road. Bleckley County Coroner Michael Francis described the death as a 'freak accident' and said the child had been wearing a life vest at the time of the incident, but it was not properly secured.
