A lawsuit was filed on April 5, 2024 involving a 12 year-old child who was injured at a Watermark Community Church event in February 2023. According to the lawsuit, as she was walking by the bounce house area at the event, a group of teenage boys overturned a bounce house on top of her and her friend. She could feel people walking on top of her on the overturned bounce house. She felt incredible pain and overwhelming fear. It felt like an eternity for an adult to recognize what had happened and to free her.
After she was seen at Scottish Rite hospital, imaging showed that both her tibia and fibula were completely fractured. She missed out on an entire soccer season and the opportunity to try out for cheer at school. The lawsuit alleges that Watermark church breached their duty to ensure a safe environment by:
Failing to properly supervise the children at the event;
Failing to properly staff the event to supervise the children;
Failing to protect from other children at the event;
Failing to recognize the severity of the event at the time it occurred;
Watermark Church is a megachurch in Dallas, Texas. Founding pastor Todd Wagner resigned in April 2021 after confessing to a sin of “pride.” No Eden Elsewhere wrote a blog post about Watermark in 2019 titled, “The Aftermath: Stories from Former Watermark Church Members.”
Where were the adults that should have been supervising the event at Watermark Church in which this child was severely injured? Of course accidents happen, but this incident seems to have happened due to lack of adult supervision.
