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The general manager of an exclusive Martha's Vineyard country club has pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of a three-year-old boy who drowned in their pool last year.

Henry Bowman Backer was not wearing any floaties when he was left alone in the pool by a counselor at the $100,000-a-year membership Boathouse & Field Club in July 2021, the court heard this week. 

When the counselor returned, little Henry had drowned. 

'We never saw our son's eyes open again. He was already brain dead,' said his father Stephen Backer, in a victim statement. 'We placed our vibrant, sweet, smart, loving boy in the care of The Field Club and they let him die.' 

Today in Dukes County Superior Court in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Boathouse & Field Club general manager Scott Anderson pleaded guilty to negligence, wanton and reckless conduct, causing the death of Henry, on behalf of the club. 

'We had one responsibility as an organization on that day and that was to return Henry back to his family. ... and we failed on every possible level,' Anderson told the court, reports The Boston Globe.  

The club was ordered to pay just $100,000 in restitution to the family and was placed on five years probation. The family said that they will be donating the money to a lifeguard training program on Cape Cod.

But the family are still furious at the club for letting their little boy die.

Stephen said: 'This is not the story of a tragic accident. This is the story of a crime.'  

'We are making this statement because the guilty party is a

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