The mother of a 3-year-old boy who “wandered away” from a Florida hotel where his family was staying and then was found dead in an on-site retention pond has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, the resort’s owners, for allowing “dangerous conditions” to exist at the Orlando property — “thereby increasing the risk of drowning posed to children,” the suit says.
“Defendant owed a duty … to exercise reasonable care in keeping its retention ponds in a reasonably safe condition for the safety of all persons lawfully on the premises,” Tarina Akbari charges in her complaint, which was viewed by Law&Crime after being filed on Dec. 26 by the Haggard Law Firm and Ben Crump Law on behalf of Akbari’s son, Rakim Akbari, who was found dead on July 18 at the Sheraton Vistana Resort Villas in the 8800 block of Palm Village Circle.
“The Defendant breached its non-delegable duty to maintain these premises in a reasonably safe condition,” the complaint says. “Dangerous conditions existed for a sufficient period of time such that a reasonable person and/or corporation … its agents, servants, and/or employees, knew or should have discovered and corrected.”