{"id":203907,"date":"2026-03-24T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:35:10","slug":"parents-want-accountability-at-rentals-after-daughter-4-drowns-at-airbnb-in-ne-miami-dade-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203907\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents want accountability at rentals after daughter, 4, drowns at Airbnb in NE Miami-Dade \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade-pool-child-drowning\/3777093\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade-pool-child-drowning\/3777093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">4-year-old girl who drowned <\/a>earlier this month at an Airbnb in Northeast Miami-Dade will be speaking on Tuesday to demand accountability at rentals to prevent similar incidents.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference will take place at the Airbnb where Kennedi Ray drowned. <\/p>\n<p>Her parents said she had autism. <\/p>\n<p>During the press conference, Ray&#8217;s parents will demand the removal of the property from rental listings and will also call for the enforcement of Florida&#8217;s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p>The act was created to help prevent child drownings by requiring barriers, fences, and self-closing gates. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the drowning happened on March 5 at the property in the 20200 block of Northeast 15th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies said the child was found at the bottom of the pool. <\/p>\n<p>The family, who are from Atlanta, Georgia, said they want to see more accountability from rental platforms that list properties as &#8220;family friendly&#8221; when they don&#8217;t have the property safety protections.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a 4-year-old girl who drowned earlier this month at an Airbnb in Northeast Miami-Dade will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-203907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}