No Medical Condition Change For Boy In Crystal Springs Incident

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — The 7-year-old boy who was discovered not breathing in the water at Crystal Springs water park in East Brunswick last week sadly remains in the hospital as of Tuesday, Aug. 7, with no change in his medical condition, East Brunswick police told Patch.

As Patch originally reported, at about 3:35 p.m. last Monday, July 30, the boy was pulled from the deep end of the Sapphire Bay section of the water park. Eyewitnesses at the park said at the time they saw a flurry of first responders and EMS workers in the Sapphire Bay area.

They performed CPR on the child and he was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he remains in critical condition this week, with no change in his medial status, Lt. Sean Goggins of the East Brunswick police said.

Police did not elaborate on exactly what happened to the boy, and all police radio transmissions said was a child was involved in an accident in the pool, according to MyCentralJersey.

Crystal Springs referred all calls to East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen's office this week, and Mayor Cohen's staff referred Patch to a statement he gave to MyCentralJersey last week, saying that the water park "staff and Township need to know they did a phenomenal job doing what we expect them to do and we hope that the outcome is good for this kid," Cohen said. "We are keeping our fingers crossed. We hope that he can make a full recovery."

It is not known if the boy is an East Brunswick resident.

Crystal Springs, located at 380 Dunham's Corner Road in East Brunswick, is one of the most popular water parks in central New Jersey, if not all of New Jersey. It was closed last Monday after the incident, but starting on Tuesday, it resumed normal operations. In the park's history, CPR had to be performed on children twice there before, in 1994 and 1998, East Brunswick Twp. administrator Joseph Criscuolo told MyCentralJersey. He did not give any further details.

Ongoing Patch reporting:

Boy Critical After Near Drowning At Crystal Springs Monday

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