Girl, 8, sneaks into condo pool & drowns HE WAS washing the dishes after lunch when his elder daughter called out to him.
Wee Ye Li, 8, told her father that she wanted to go downstairs to play.
Before Mr Wee Boon Teng, 45, could stop her, he heard the door slam.
It was the last time he saw the girl alive. Ye Li later drowned in the pool of a nearby condominium.
The Primary 2 girl had taken her four-year-old sister to look for their seven-year-old neighbour. The trio then sneaked into Evergreen Park condominium to splash in the pool at about noon last Saturday.
The New Paper understands that one of Ye Li's schoolmates lives at the condo, which is next to Block 337, Hougang Avenue 7, where Ye Li lives.
But the trio had not arranged to meet the schoolmate that day.
Ye Li's mother, Madam Fu Yamei, 41, said her younger daughter told her that they had entered through the condo's side gate.
The gate can be opened only by an access card but the three girls waited for a resident to exit and then sneaked in.
Madam Fu, a food stall assistant, told The New Paper in Mandarin:'My younger daughter said that she didn't go into the pool.
'She sat near the pool and played by herself. But a while later, she looked up and couldn't find her sister.
'So she called out 'jie jie' (older sister in Mandarin) a few times.'
Unknown to the little girl, her sister, who didn't know how to swim, was struggling in the pool.
By the time help came and Ye Li was pulled out of the water, she was unconscious.
Said Madam Fu: 'Mei mei (her younger daughter) said that her sister was foaming at the mouth and did not 'open her eyes' no matter how loudly she called her.'
A police spokesman said they received a call from a resident at about 12.45pm informing them that a girl had been found motionless in a swimming pool at the condo.
The case has been classified as 'unnatural death' and investigations are ongoing.
Ye Li was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital but she did not regain consciousness.
She died on Monday at about 1pm.
Apparently, the outgoing and active girl had her heart set on learning to swim about a year ago.
Madam Fu said: 'One day last year, she asked me out of the blue if she could go for swimmin glessons.
'But I told her that we had no time (to take her to lessons) and she didn't ask again after that.'
Ye Li never took those swimming lessons. But Madam Fu would sometimes take her daughters to Hougang Swimming Complex for a dip after an aunt gave the girl a swimming costume when she was in kindergarten.
The two girls would play in the shallow water of the children's pool while Madam Fu watched.
'I knew she liked swimming as I always had a hard time trying to get her out of the pool. And she would keep her swimming costume in her wardrobe after I dried it.'
Madam Fu works 12-hour days at a food court in Seng kang, while her husband works the night shift as a general worker at Resorts World Sentosa.
He looks after their children during the day. She was at work when Ye Li sneaked out that Saturday.
Said Madam Fu: 'Mei mei (her younger daughter) said that her sister was foaming at the mouth and did not 'open her eyes' no matter how loudly she called her.'
A police spokesman said they received a call from a resident at about 12.45pm informing them that a girl had been found motionless in a swimming pool at the condo.
The case has been classified as 'unnatural death' and investigations are ongoing.
Ye Li was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital but she did not regain consciousness.
She died on Monday at about 1pm.
Apparently, the outgoing and active girl had her heart set on learning to swim about a year ago.
Madam Fu said: 'One day last year, she asked me out of the blue if she could go for swimmin glessons.
'But I told her that we had no time (to take her to lessons) and she didn't ask again after that.'
Ye Li never took those swimming lessons. But Madam Fu would sometimes take her daughters to Hougang Swimming Complex for a dip after an aunt gave the girl a swimming costume when she was in kindergarten.
The two girls would play in the shallow water of the children's pool while Madam Fu watched.
'I knew she liked swimming as I always had a hard time trying to get her out of the pool. And she would keep her swimming costume in her wardrobe after I dried it.'
Madam Fu works 12-hour days at a food court in Seng kang, while her husband works the night shift as a general worker at Resorts World Sentosa.
He looks after their children during the day. She was at work when Ye Li sneaked out that Saturday.
Girl, 8, sneaks into condo pool & drowns
Wee Ye Li, 8, told her father that she wanted to go downstairs to play.
Before Mr Wee Boon Teng, 45, could stop her, he heard the door slam.
It was the last time he saw the girl alive. Ye Li later drowned in the pool of a nearby condominium.
The Primary 2 girl had taken her four-year-old sister to look for their seven-year-old neighbour. The trio then sneaked into Evergreen Park condominium to splash in the pool at about noon last Saturday.
The New Paper understands that one of Ye Li's schoolmates lives at the condo, which is next to Block 337, Hougang Avenue 7, where Ye Li lives.
But the trio had not arranged to meet the schoolmate that day.
Ye Li's mother, Madam Fu Yamei, 41, said her younger daughter told her that they had entered through the condo's side gate.
The gate can be opened only by an access card but the three girls waited for a resident to exit and then sneaked in.
Madam Fu, a food stall assistant, told The New Paper in Mandarin:'My younger daughter said that she didn't go into the pool.
'She sat near the pool and played by herself. But a while later, she looked up and couldn't find her sister.
'So she called out 'jie jie' (older sister in Mandarin) a few times.'
Unknown to the little girl, her sister, who didn't know how to swim, was struggling in the pool.
By the time help came and Ye Li was pulled out of the water, she was unconscious.
Said Madam Fu: 'Mei mei (her younger daughter) said that her sister was foaming at the mouth and did not 'open her eyes' no matter how loudly she called her.'
A police spokesman said they received a call from a resident at about 12.45pm informing them that a girl had been found motionless in a swimming pool at the condo.
The case has been classified as 'unnatural death' and investigations are ongoing.
Ye Li was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital but she did not regain consciousness.
She died on Monday at about 1pm.
Apparently, the outgoing and active girl had her heart set on learning to swim about a year ago.
Madam Fu said: 'One day last year, she asked me out of the blue if she could go for swimmin glessons.
'But I told her that we had no time (to take her to lessons) and she didn't ask again after that.'
Ye Li never took those swimming lessons. But Madam Fu would sometimes take her daughters to Hougang Swimming Complex for a dip after an aunt gave the girl a swimming costume when she was in kindergarten.
The two girls would play in the shallow water of the children's pool while Madam Fu watched.
'I knew she liked swimming as I always had a hard time trying to get her out of the pool. And she would keep her swimming costume in her wardrobe after I dried it.'
Madam Fu works 12-hour days at a food court in Seng kang, while her husband works the night shift as a general worker at Resorts World Sentosa.
He looks after their children during the day. She was at work when Ye Li sneaked out that Saturday.
Said Madam Fu: 'Mei mei (her younger daughter) said that her sister was foaming at the mouth and did not 'open her eyes' no matter how loudly she called her.'
A police spokesman said they received a call from a resident at about 12.45pm informing them that a girl had been found motionless in a swimming pool at the condo.
The case has been classified as 'unnatural death' and investigations are ongoing.
Ye Li was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital but she did not regain consciousness.
She died on Monday at about 1pm.
Apparently, the outgoing and active girl had her heart set on learning to swim about a year ago.
Madam Fu said: 'One day last year, she asked me out of the blue if she could go for swimmin glessons.
'But I told her that we had no time (to take her to lessons) and she didn't ask again after that.'
Ye Li never took those swimming lessons. But Madam Fu would sometimes take her daughters to Hougang Swimming Complex for a dip after an aunt gave the girl a swimming costume when she was in kindergarten.
The two girls would play in the shallow water of the children's pool while Madam Fu watched.
'I knew she liked swimming as I always had a hard time trying to get her out of the pool. And she would keep her swimming costume in her wardrobe after I dried it.'
Madam Fu works 12-hour days at a food court in Seng kang, while her husband works the night shift as a general worker at Resorts World Sentosa.
He looks after their children during the day. She was at work when Ye Li sneaked out that Saturday.
Girl, 8, sneaks into condo pool & drowns
Lack of Supervision Puts Kids at Risk of Drowning
Children ranging in age from one to four years old have an increased risk of suffering a drowning death or near drowning experience. In Arizona, child drowning deaths are the number one cause of unintentional death among children one to four years of age. The children who do survive a near drowning are often left with permanent damage, such as brain and neurological damage.
The main culprit for these drowning incidents are due to the lack of proper supervision and lack of barriers or fences surrounding pools. In a split second a child can slip from proper supervision and fall into a pool. Even with proper barriers in place, children can find their way to a pool, either by climbing over the barrier or through an open gate.
Many people are unaware there are numerous products available to alert parents when a child has entered a pool. There are also numerous safety products that can be purchased to keep children away from pool areas. Using pool alarm systems and other safety products reduce the risk of a small child entering a pool out of curiosity and simply by accident.
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