Dear Travelers:

We are writing from our hearts to ask your assistance to make sure that no other family has to endure the personal tragedy that our family was forced to endure while on vacation in the Riviera Maya at the Occidental Grand Xcaret, located approximately 40 miles south of Cancun.

Bright, intelligent, happy 8-year-old Brent was killed on April 26, 2003 in a swimming pool at that resort. He was violently pulled into an 11½ inch diameter uncovered, underwater drain pipe. (The hotel claims the pipe was covered, but the cover was missing at the time.) Hotel management did not even disclose the existence of the pipe until almost 12 hours after he was reported missing, and then claim it took an additional 9 hours to recover his lifeless body. They refused to provide information during the search and recovery operations, would not allow a distraught mother to visit the scene of her only son's death, and allowed their own attorney to represent himself as a police official at the local police station. To date, the resort continues to ignore their wrongdoing and refuse to accept the responsiblity for destroying the life of a child and his family.

Further details in published news articles can be found by going to
www.brentmidlock.com