Eight-year-old girl died after being sucked into piping at a hotel swimming pool

Family seeking justice for her because this could have been avoidable...

An eight-year-old girl died after being "violently sucked" into piping at a hotel swimming pool in Houston, while spending time with her family at the DoubleTree hotel on March 23.

Tim Miller, from the rescue team Texas Equusearch, said, “You could see her little head go down, and never been seen again, so it was pretty obvious something happened and she never got out of the pool."

Jaico was an avid swimmer. Her body was discovered the morning after the day she was reported missing. Rescue divers saw her hand inside a pool pipe using poles with cameras attached to them.

"How her body was wedged in there, actually shut the pump, shut that suction off. There really wasn't any suction. Her little body was all the way to the motor, so it took her in a good distance,” Miller said.

Miller said that the pipe had recently been repaired. "If that pump was wired wrong, that would create the pipe was blowing water out to suck in.

Right beside there, there was another pipe with a grate on it. That's the one that's supposed to be sucking in, because it's basically a circulation pump,” he said, according to The Mirror

Jaico’s family has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hotel and its parent companies. They have been accused of gross negligence. The family has sought over $1 million in damages.

“We are seeking justice for Aliyah because this could have been avoidable,” the family’s attorney Richard Nava told. “Everybody knows this could have been avoidable.”

“All the evidence is going to point to this hotel (running) an establishment with many violations,” he added. “The pool was not in working order.”