UPDATED Thursday, December 4, 2008 --- 6:55 a.m.

The Baraboo News Republic reports:

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed last month in Sauk County Circuit Court by the parents of a 4-year-old who drowned last year at the Wilderness Hotel and Golf Resort.

The suit, filed by the parents of the victim, Tyler Houtakker, of the Asbury, Iowa, claims Wilderness Hotel employees were negligent by failing to take notice of Tyler's distress in a wave pool that was not active, and for failing to enter the pool to perform a rescue.

Click HERE to read article in the Baraboo News Republic

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Posted June 15, 2007 --- 10:15 a.m.

A police report on a drowning last week says a supervisor at the Wilderness Resort in Lake Delton told a lifeguard twice not to enter a pool to help a boy seen face-down in the water.

The report shows the supervisor instead had the lifeguard get someone swimming nearby to check on the child. When the boy was unresponsive, the patron brought him to the side of the pool and lifeguards tried to resuscitate him when he was pulled from the water.

The police report was released Thursday on the death last Friday evening of 4-year-old Tyler Houtakker of Asbury, Iowa.

Lake Delton Police Chief Tom Dorner says he doesn't expect charges to be filed against the resort. He says authorities don't suspect foul play, and it obviously was an accident.

Resort spokesman Joe Eck says lifeguards commonly enter the water when they feel someone is in danger, but it's a judgment call for the lifeguards and in this case it didn't seem like trouble.

The boy was pronounced dead after being rushed to a Baraboo hospital.

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