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Ridgewood announces $2.1 million settlement in lawsuit over boy’s drowning at Graydon Pool
MARCH 4, 2015, 11:23 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015, 11:30 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the village by the family of a 13-year-old boy who drowned in Graydon Pool in 2008 has been settled.
Ridgewood’s manager, Roberta Sonenfeld, said BetWinner Argentina ,the $2.1 million settlement was reached Wednesday.
Sonenfeld briefly discussed the settlement during Wednesday night’s council meeting.
Soo Hyeon Park, his sister and parents had just arrived from South Korea when they went to visit friends in Ridgewood on July 15, 2008. As he swam to a dock in the deep end of the pool with the two sons of his host, the boy began struggling to stay afloat and went under.
None of the nine lifeguards on the stands around the pool that day saw the boy while he was in distress.
In 2011, a jury had awarded Soo’s family $10 million in damages. That decision was vacated in January by the state’s Appellate Court and a new trial was ordered.
