A Christmas getaway to the desert started out with food and fun for a Texas family last year but took a sharp turn when one of their children nearly died in their vacation homes backyard pool.

I cant think of anything more scary or more traumatic, the mother told police in Scottsdale, Arizona.

It was Christmas Eve 2024, and local relatives had come over to the short-term rental home to visit. The dad had fired up the grill. The mom was cooking in the kitchen. And an adult cousin and his wife played foosball on the back patio while a few kids ages 6 and 7 went swimming in the home's unfenced, backyard pool.

Everything seemed fine until the familys youngest child, 1, wobbled out of the home and into the pool, unnoticed. The children who were playing in the pool didnt seem to see the child

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