WARNING: Details in this story regarding the child’s injuries and death may be distressing to some readers.

The family of a young girl who tragically died on a summer vacation to Washington is speaking out after filing a wrongful death lawsuit.

Danika’s mom Margarita and dad Simon say the tragedy has left them heartbroken.

“It’s difficult to imagine your child’s death,” Margarita told CBS affiliateKREM. “But to hear how it actually happened, and thinking what she went through in the last moments of life, makes it way more horrible.”

Margarita and Simon told the outlet they were away for a family emergency when the fatal incident unfolded. They ended up learning about everything on a phone call with one of Danika’s older half-sisters.

“I got a picture of the sunset where all the kids are on the shore of that little lake on the beach during sunset,” Simon told KREM. “Then, about 10 minutes, or 15 minutes later, I get a phone call that I wish I would never get my life.”

“I said, ‘There’s no way it happened because she’s a great swimmer. She would be on the lake a few times a week her whole life. There was no way,'” Margarita added.

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After being sucked in, Danika was “thrust down into a 90-degree bend in the pipe” before her body “was transported nearly 70 feet up the hill via the mechanical pump mechanism,” the complaint alleges, referring to Danika’s death as “painful, gruesome, terrifying, and senseless.”

“Her family is devastated,” Marsh said. Echoing he allegations in the complaint, he called the incident “an easily preventable death if the company followed the law and installed required grating or sensors to shut down the system in the event of a blockage like this.”

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The complaint alleges that Cave B and the water district were responsible for the “design, installation, and maintenance” of the pump and for promoting the lake for recreational use without warnings of danger from the pipe.

The King County Superior Court lists the case to go to trial in the summer of 2022, according to KREM.

source: people.com