Crime & Safety
New Lenox Boy Falls in Hole & His Mom Sues Village
The Village of New Lenox should have covered the hole, the lawsuit said.
A New Lenox woman sued the village for allegedly failing to cover a hole her son fell into last year.
Gina Dinardo filed her lawsuit in Will County court.
Dinardo's son, Bobby Cuban, fell into a hole in July 2013, the lawsuit said.
Bobby was "walking lawfully along the side of a public pond near Yamma Ridge" when he fell into a "drainage hole ... that was not reasonably safe," the suit said.
"The hole was supposed to be covered with a plastic cap by the Village of New Lenox for the safety of its residents, but it was not," the lawsuit said, and had been left open for at least a year before Bobby fell into it.
Bobby suffered a "large laceration" to his shin when he fell in the hole, the suit said.
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