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Higher Regional Court of Rostock
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A man went on a trip with his daughter and her playmates in June 2012.
They attended a circus event of the youth welfare association in Rostock.
But then the six-year-old boy fell into a pond, almost drowned - and has been a nursing case ever since.
The Rostock Higher Regional Court has now ruled who is liable for this: The supervisory man, the property owner and the event organizer have to pay damages and compensation for pain and suffering.
The Rostock Higher Regional Court ruled that the girl's father had violated his duty of supervision.
A spokeswoman for the Rostock OLG told SPIEGEL that he left the boy out of sight for several minutes.
During this time, the boy ran to the pond with a friend, where the accident happened.
The landlord and the organizer had insufficiently secured the pond and thus violated the traffic safety obligation.
The boy fell into the pond and got underwater.
Despite immediate rescue operations, he suffered severe brain damage.
The OLG set the amount in dispute at one million euros on Friday.
The Rostock Regional Court, whose ruling from 2018 was largely confirmed by the Higher Regional Court, must now determine the exact amount of the compensation for damages and pain and suffering.
According to the judgment, the playmate's father has to pay half of the amount still to be determined.
The other half should be shared by the youth welfare association and the landowner as so-called joint debtors.
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