What began as a journey to celebrate that they had overcome the COVID-19, became a tragedy for the cardiologist Miguel Angel Luna Calvo and his family, after Leonardo, his 13-year-old son, died after being sucked by one of the water filters in the Xenses park of Grupo Xcaret, which caused severe injuries that led to his death.

Leonardo’s father denied that his son’s death was a human error and said it was a total neglect that cost the life of one of his children.

The family, originally from Durango, had made the trip to the Riviera maya as part of a celebration of life, as Luna Calvo fell ill with COVID-19 in January and infected his entire family, consisting of his wife, a minor under 11 years old, Leonardo, 13, and two young people aged 18 and 20.

Once they were discharged from the disease, they thought of giving themselves the trip, but not before taking a final test to make sure they were no longer infected and did not represent any risk to other vacationers.

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On Saturday, March 27, the family visited the Xenses Park, which together with Xcaret Park, Xel-Ha, Xplor, Xoximilco and the Xenotes tour, make up the Xcaret Group’s offer.

The cardiologist narrated to The universal that at one point he lost sight of Leonardo, but because he was very joking, they thought it was a game, until he went to look for him and noticed the suction, which was about to pull him too.

“As he was very joking, we even thought he was playing. When I went to look for it I realized that there was a suction and it pulled me; I almost drowned too. I had to look for my son, until I found him and took him out. I gave him resuscitation. They were some paramedics from the park who do not have a team of anything. An ambulance also arrived with little equipment capacity.”

“I was giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, suppressions and compressions on his little chest. He was taken to a hospital and spent almost a day there. And he died on Sunday at 11:50 (hours) and then the whole problem in the Prosecutor’s Office, where I was more than six hours,” said the doctor in the interview.

Leonardo's father had to request the intervention of the governor of Durango, José Rosas Aispuro. Photo: Taken from Facebook

Leonardo’s father had to request the intervention of the governor of Durango, José Rosas Aispuro.

Luna Calvo had to go to the governor of Durango, José Rosas Aispuro so that they would grant him a dispensation from the necropsy, as his wife did not want their son’s body to be hurt any more.

The doctor narrated that he had no intention of initiating any legal action, since both he and his wife are not spiteful people. After the death of his son, The company conditioned him to hand over the body of his son in exchange for forgiveness and resistance to take the statement.

“I knelt down. I had to kneel down in front of the lawyer and cry so that she would allow me to make an account of the facts. I knelt down and cried.” He said in an interview with the media, and mentioned that, in addition, the vice prosecutor refused to hand over the body of his son, if he did not sign the pardon to the company.

Luna Calvo reported that on Sunday he spent six hours in the vice prosecutor’s office. “On Sunday, March 28, they kept me in the vice prosecutor’s office for six hours. My wife was so ill that I requested a waiver to do a necropsy on my son; she didn’t want to be hurt anymore.”

“Then they forced me to sign the pardon. I spoke with the vice prosecutor and he told me ‘I have the instruction not to give you the body, if you do not sign the pardon’. And I signed,” he said.

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Subsequently, the procedures began with the funeral home, and the governor Aispuro Torres sent a plane to pick up the family on Monday morning, and thus return them to Durango.

Once at home, the idea of ​​not proceeding legally changed, because now there are two lawyers, one in Cancun and one in Mexico City, seeing the case.

On Wednesday a mass was held for the child’s present body, and his father declared that when the coffin arrived, he could not resist and began to cry, and told his wife that they should do something.

“It was not human error. It was total negligence. That is a death trap. Before I did not die too, trying to save my son. I am a double victim, I lost my son and I could die. It was negligence.

“The company was there with us, but my wife didn’t want anything from them. I activated my insurance for medical expenses immediately and when I wanted to pay they no longer let me, everything was covered. But I never asked for them, nor did I authorize them to pay,” said the cardiologist, pointing out to the newspaper that he is not looking for money, but for justice to be done.

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