Parents of Deceased Kaukauna Boy Seeking Better Safety Measures at Retention Ponds

It is never easy to lose a child, but the parents of the 12 year old Kaukauna boy who drowned Tuesday evening are attempting to use their tragedy to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Dylun Tapio and his three siblings were attempting to release a turtle into a retention pond, when three of the boys entered the pond. They began to struggle, and the fourth boy called for help. Neighbors arrived and saved two of the boys but couldn’t find Dylun, and he died. His father Jason is asking for the city to do more to prevent this from happening again, saying “If we have to have ponds in here like this, we need to have some kind of restraints besides signs. If you have a pool in your yard, you have to have a fence around it. Why do all these properties have these massive ponds and just little signs protecting them?”