Lawsuit filed by mother of child injured at The Cove in June of last year

By Roberta Cantrell

BSN Associate Editor

LOUISA- A local business has found themselves in the center of a lawsuit following an incident that caused injury to a child.

In the lawsuit filed April 2 of this year by Sasha Dotson, of Louisa, stated that on June 6, 2023, her child, a minor, was playing at The Cove, an inflatable water park located on Beach Road on Yatesville Lake, when he was injured on the property owned and managed by Mildred Suzie New, who along with the business was named as the defendants in the suit.

The park is offered to the public upon paying an admission with various recreational services.

The lawsuit claims that the defendants failed to exercise reasonable care in the placement, securing, assembling, installing, maintaining, operating and or adequately supervising the inflatable water slide.

The suit also claims that the business failed to provide adequate supervision, warnings, signs or training for safe operation, calling it grossly inadequate.

The child is said to have on-going mental pain and anguish and has lost enjoyment of life along with permanent scarring and disfiguring as a result of head injuries which occurred that day.

Dotson is also seeking a trial by jury and wants satisfaction in medical expenses for past and continuing medical care, future duress, lost wages and future loss wages, impairment of quality of life, punitive damages and loss of any out-of-pocket expenses related to this incident.

Dotson is being represented by Jason Charles Reichenbach Esq. from Staffordsville and E. Seth Combs from Hindman.