Mysterious death of Boy Scout, 11, who drowned in 'boating accident' surrounded by other kids

An 11-year-old Boy Scout from Massachusetts mysteriously died successful a boating mishap surrounded by 8 different unit members, and present his parents are demanding answers 

Keoni Hubbard had gone connected a travel with his Boy Scouts of America unit to Manning Lake successful Gilmanton, New Hampshire, connected July 7, 2023, erstwhile helium died successful what the scouts said was a boating accident.

Now, his parents, Jena and John Hubbard, are suing the Boy Scouts of America and its Daniel Webster Council, which operates the Griswold Scout Reservation and Camp Bell successful Gilmanton, New Hampshire. 

'I gave him a hug. I told him I loved him, and I said, "Have amusive and beryllium safe,' and that haunts me, due to the fact that helium was not safe,' Jena recalled to Boston.com. 

'I americium trapped successful my ain mentation of hellhole connected Earth - a hellhole wherever the champion portion of my time is erstwhile I aftermath up, and for fractional a moment, I hide my lad is dead,' John told WBZ. 

'Some radical accidental clip heals, but that's not true. Time does not heal this.' 

The lawsuit, obtained by the DailyMail.com, alleges that the defendants were negligent successful their level of grooming and supervision, placing the counsellor and Scouts successful danger. 

Scouting America said successful a connection to Boston.com that it 'continue[s] to grieve the nonaccomplishment of Keoni Hubbard pursuing his tragic death.' 

'We privation to, again, explicit our deepest condolences to Keoni's household and friends. We recognize that a suit has been filed involving Keoni, and we person not yet had an accidental for a thorough review.' 

The Hubbards are seeking unspecified damages for Keoni's suffering of 'great symptom of assemblage and mind, imminent fearfulness of death, conscious symptom and suffering, and death.'

Jena urged parents successful a quality league to 'not spot the Scouts and instrumentality attraction of your kids.' 

'Keoni hated radical getting hurt. In his honor, we are warring truthful that nary household goes done the symptom and suffering that we are trying to past each day,' she said. 

Keoni had been visiting Camp Bell with his unit connected the time helium died. In the lawsuit, the Hubbards assertion that the campy leaders were negligent successful their level of grooming and supervision.  

'Eight scouts, including Keoni, ages 11 to 14, were placed connected a tiny athletics vessel by an enactment that irresponsibly entrusted the attraction and information of those children to an utterly unqualified young vessel operator,' said the family's lawyer Tucker Merrigan. 

Merrigan said that the 18-year-old vessel relation had been issued his boating licence conscionable 10 days earlier the fateful travel and had received astir an hr of training. 

Investigators concluded that the mishap was a 'systematic failure.' The counsellor who was named arsenic a suspect struck and yet killed Keoni with the boat's propeller arsenic Hubbard swam successful the lake, according to the lawsuit. 

'We didn't privation to writer the relation of this boat, but that's what the instrumentality dictates,' Merrigan said. 

'And helium was enactment successful an intolerable concern owed to the implicit disregard for immoderate communal consciousness by the leaders of the organizations that are besides defendants.' 

Merrigan added that Keoni's decease is simply a 'damning illustration of what occurs erstwhile an enactment places captious responsibilities successful the hands of the unqualified.'  

'Our hearts are everlastingly breached by the nonaccomplishment of our Keoni. Beloved by his household and friends, Keoni's tone and empathy for others resonated with each who emotion and respect him. Keoni was simply the champion - a selfless kid who genuinely recovered joyousness successful the happiness of others,' the household said successful a statement, reported WMUR. 

'We privation to grant who helium was - an astonishing son, a loyal friend, and a genuinely benignant quality being... I americium a wholly antithetic idiosyncratic aft losing my saccharine boy,' Jena added. 

The Boy Scouts of America and the Daniel Webster Council did not instantly respond to the DailyMail.com's petition for comment.