The two women who were passengers in the same raft as a 10-year-old boy killed on the “world’s tallest” water slide in Kansas have spoken out for the first time.
Caleb Schwab, the son of Kansas Rep. Scott Schwab, died of a severe neck injury on Aug. 7 on the Verrückt water slide at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. The two other passengers on the raft, who are sisters, were not previously identified in media reports. They both suffered facial injuries.
On Aug. 17, however, Hannah Barnes and Matraca Baetz released a statement via an attorney, Lynn Johnson.
“We are pursuing a thorough investigation of this tragic event to insure that any and all measures are taken to prevent this from ever happening again,” read their statement. “Being mothers ourselves, we can only hope that Caleb’s family can find some comfort in knowing we are doing everything we know how to do to stop something so tragic from occurring again to any other family.”
