Yolanda George, mother of Christopher Gilbert, calls on police to make arrest after incident in Louisiana in April
The family of a 26-year-old Louisiana man who has brain damage after a friend allegedly pushed him into a lake despite him being unable to swim is calling on authorities to deliver them justice.
Christopher Gilbert’s family’s pleas came after he nearly drowned on 14 April while at a lakefront restaurant by Lake D’Arbonne in the northern Louisiana town of Farmerville.
Speaking to the local news station KSLA, Gilbert’s mother Yolanda George said: “A friend of his called. She was hysterical, crying on the phone. She told me that Chris had [fallen] into the lake, and he had been underwater for 20 minutes or so.”
George said her son – an aspiring medical doctor – was rescued and taken to a nearby hospital. She added: “The doctor called us in and told me that at that time, he was brain-dead, pretty much, and the rest of his organs were starting to fail, and that we had 72 hours on” life support, though Gilbert later regained consciousness and the ability to eat on his own.
No that was not a friend, that was a psychopath doing harm to others with no thoughts of consequences.
That action is assault, and should be punished as such.
EDIT: To those that defend the girl:
We know, She pushed him, and she didn’t rescue him or even attempt it , and we also know she took a very long time to call for help.
So based on that make your own judgement on whether she is more likely to be a psychopath than not. She sure behaved like one.
It was probably one of those morons who said “this is how my parents taught me! Hyuk hyuk” and then pushed him in.
People have tried that on me, knowing I can’t swim, and I almost got physical when they’d “pretend” to push me in the deep end. It just makes me wary around them near the pool, because I can actually fucking die if I fall in.