The parents of a 14-year-old boy who died after being found at the bottom of a public swimming pool are suing the City of Winnipeg and four lifeguards.

Cindy Paul and Jason Sereda claim the defendants caused the drowning of their son, Adam Sereda-Paul, by being negligent and failing to provide a duty of care to him at the Cindy Klassen Recreation Complex.

“When people to go swimming pools… parents entrust their children to reasonably skilled guarding, and there has to be a proper complement of guards to safeguard the children of our community, and any swimmer in our community,” the parents’ lawyer, Martin Pollock, told the Free Press Monday.

“Clearly, the family felt failed — miserably failed — by those who were in charge. The death of this boy should not have happened, period.”

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