How in the world do you miss that?!? Even if she was in the deepest of the deep end…a lifeguard sitting high up on their post cannot NOT see that! That is insane. SMH read more about the story after the jump.
(FOX) – Police say lifeguards were on duty and people were swimming in the Veterans Memorial pool at Lafayette Park Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and it appears no one noticed the dead body.
Investigators identified the body as 36-year-old Marie Joseph.
Police say Joseph was watching her 9-year-old neighbor at the pool on Sunday when she apparently had an accident sliding down a waterside.
Family friends tell FOX25 the little boy told lifeguards that she did not come up from above water but no action was taken.
The Bristol County DA would not confirm if the woman’s body was in the water for two days, but did call the set of circumstances “unbelievable” and said the death is still under investigation.
Fall River Mayor William Flanagan says health inspectors visited the pool on Monday and Tuesday and inspected the facilities and apparently did not see a body either. Those inspectors have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), who runs the pool, has since closed all 30 of their deepwater pools until further notice.
DCR has also placed the entire staff of the pool on administrative leave.
According to friends, Marie Joseph has left behind five children and lived in an apartment a mile form the pool.
