Gore District Council has admitted it failed to ensure appropriate fencing was in place around oxidation ponds, where a runaway toddler drowned in 2019
Gore District Council has admitted it failed to ensure appropriate fencing was in place around oxidation ponds, where a runaway toddler drowned in 2019
20 January 2023
3-year-old Lachlan Jones entered the ponds and drowned on January 29, 2019.
According to the Otago Daily Times, court documents reveal stock-proof fencing was in place on three sides of the perimeter of the ponds, while the fourth side was unfenced.
The council will be sentenced on March 6.
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