re: Family suing Royal Caribbean in wake of toddler's death

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Link to the dm article with the blurry video of him at the window , baby going to him, being lifted and promptly going out the window.

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I don't really understand what I'm watching...at what point did he drop her?

There never seemed to be a reaction of panic from him or anything, and the people around him never seemed to notice.

I think the reaction from people noticing him yelling is when more started standing up to see what was happening right at end video. It seems clear the kid went there to lean against bottom window while standing on floor like family mentioned she liked to do at hockey games with grandfather leaning over her with his head having to be out the open window at that point. This went on for a little while and then he picked her up over the hand rail and on top of framing he had just used to look out the open window just minutes earlier.

After that it's hard to tell. Another video showed her reaching for window towards end, and maybe grandfather had played around and told her that there was one there and she reached but slipped from his hands or he just was not properly prepared to handle her on the edge in first place.

So Maybe the kid didn't know the window open, but it's clear the grandfather did and enjoyed it while she looked from bottom window below him. He wanted to share that view from open window with her but messed up badly.

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He is to blame . No one else

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And if perhaps he had been saucing immediately prior to the accident....more potential criminal negligence on his part. But I haven't seen any mention of alcohol, just spitballing.

I feel for whoever had to recover the body and clean the site. Can't understand how people can do that kind of work.

I know guys that work for companies like Servpro that have had to clean up homes after suicides, deaths that the person had been there a while, etc.
Said they hated it and were never paid enough to deal with that part of the job

I read there's video showing him first standing or sitting child on the rail, then sorta holding her a little beyond the edge when it happened. Just can't imagine. If it were me I think it's very possible I'd jump after her. In the heat of multiple chaotic emotions.

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I just got off of this cruise ship. The windows in question on the deck slide open about 2 feet or so, and anyone can open or close them. The grand father is color blind, so I can understand him not being able to see the difference from the missing pane. From the opposite side of the deck, I couldn't tell the open windows from the closed ones.

The child liked to slap hands against the window, and that is what the grandfather was picking the child up to do. I do believe it was an accident that is incredibly horrible, but it's not criminal, and RC shouldn't have culpability there. It's just an incredibly unfortunate accident that had incredibly tragic consequences.

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For his sake, I wanted to think what you were thinking.

Scroll up a few posts and watch the video taken within the ship. Certainly appears to me that he was leaning out of the window prior to lifting her up to it.