>Trial begins in Graydon Pool drowning lawsuit
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The trial in the case of the 2008 drowning of a 13-year-old boy at Graydon Pool began this week, with attorneys poised to bring their arguments forward and expert witnesses to testify.
Soo Hyeon Park, who, with his family, was visiting from Korea when they went to Ridgewood’s municipal pool as guests of the Kim family, drowned on the afternoon of July 15, 2008. Details of the drowning, notably the time at which the incident was first reported, have been disputed by the Village of Ridgewood and the Park family.
The Park family has sued the village for negligence and for emotional distress. The village had filed countersuits against the Park family as well as the Kim family, arguing that they owed a duty of care to oversee their son and to explain the pool’s rules to the guest family, respectively.
A Superior Court judge dismissed the Kim and Park families of culpability in summary judgments in June.
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