Shocking response of hotel company to parents of girl who was sucked into pipe in lazy river

The parents of an eight year-old girl sucked to her death in a hotel lazy river are to blame for the tragedy, according to a shocking new legal filing. 

Aliyah Jaico, 8, died after being sucked into a one-foot wide pipe in the pool's lazy river, with Northwest Hospitality Services - which manages the hotel where the tragedy unfolded - saying they're free of blame for the incident. 

The youngster was on vacation with her family at the DoubleTree by Hilton Houston Brookhollow in Texas when she disappeared on March 30. Northwest Hospitality paid Hilton to license the brand name. 

Aaliyah's parents declared her missing at 9:45pm, before search and rescue teams deduced she had gone underwater and never resurfaced. Her body was found wedged in a narrow pipe hours later, with a $1 million lawsuit since filed. 

A management company being sued by the parents of Aliyah Jaico, 8, who drowned in one of their swimming pools has blamed the grieving mom for her death

Northwest asserts that Plaintiffs engaged in negligent acts and/or omissions that proximately caused the alleged injuries and damages,' the court document states, Click2 Houston reports.

The statement echoed one issued by local owners of the hotel Unique Crowne Hospitality, which is also being sued along with Hilton.

'We believe that Ayliah was violently sucked in the hole that was 12 to 16 inches wide,' family attorney Richard Nava previously said. He added she couldn't have swam in there on her own.

'Her poor little body was contoured when she was sucked into this hole and pipe 20 feet back. Her body was inside of the motor when she had to be extracted. They had to break up concrete in order to extract her, cut pipe. It was absolutely horrific.’

Just before the drowning, Nava detailed how Aliyah might have been helping her five-year-old sister, who was also in the pool and possibly also getting sucked into the same pipe that ultimately claimed her sister's life.

A 13-year-old relative stepped in to help the five-year-old and prevent her from drowning. Once the chaos stopped, her family realized Aliyah was missing.

Jaico died after being sucked into a one-foot wide pipe in the pool's lazy river

Her parents declared her missing at 9:45pm, before search and rescue teams deduced she had gone underwater and never resurfaced. Her body was found wedged in a narrow pipe hours later

Aliyah's cause of death was 'drowning and mechanical asphyxia' and appeared to be an accident

It wasn't until the mom called in search and rescue team Texas Equusearch, that the video was shown to police and rescuers.

‘You could see her little head go down, and never been seen again, so it was pretty obvious something happened and she never got out of the pool,' Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch, who saw the video, described.

Described as an avid swimmer, Aliyah was reported missing around 6 p.m., but her mangled body wasn't recovered until 7 a.m. the next day after rescue divers used poles with cameras attached to them and spotted her little hand inside of a pool pipe.

‘How her body was wedged in there, actually shut the pump, shut that suction off. There really wasn’t any suction. Her little body was all the way to the motor, so it took her in a good distance,' Miller said.

Multiple violations were found by the Houston Fire Department when a team inspected the swimming pool Monday, reported the local ABC station.

The pool had recently under gone repairs, Miller revealed.

Her devastated mother wrote: 'Thank you, my love, for the eight years you gave me by your side. Thank you, my girl, for teaching me what love is and a noble heart'

Aliyah Jaico is pictured posing by a pool. The girl's 'little hand and part of her body' were the first to appear, having been 'wedged' deep inside the pipe, authorities said

The swimming pool at DoubleTree by Hilton Houston Brookhollow 

‘If that pump was wired wrong, that would create the pipe was blowing water out to to suck in,' he stated.

'Right beside there, there was another pipe with a grate on it. That’s the one that’s supposed to be sucking in, because it’s basically a circulation pump.’

The lawsuit also includes a restraining order, forcing the hotel to give Aliyah's family and lawyers access to the pool, which they are currently refusing, Nava disclosed.

According to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science, the girl's preliminary cause of death was 'drowning and mechanical asphyxia' and appeared to be an accident.