Expiation for a Child Drowning in a Swimming Pool

The questioner:
This is a mother asking about the expiation for a child who was four years old. His father took him to a rest area that had a small swimming pool. It was his habit to swim in it, and when it was full, the water only reached his shoulders. The boy drowned in the aforementioned pool. Does she have an expiation to perform, or does the father, or do they have nothing to do?

The Shaykh:
Who is the one who swims, where the water only reaches his shoulder: the child or the father?

The questioner:
a child.

The Shaykh:
The boy? Yes, indeed. Even if it was because the boy does not know about drowning and does not know about it, this is not permissible. And if he did not place barriers on the pool to prevent children from reaching it, then he is the cause of the child's death. Being the cause means he has an expiation, or fasting for two consecutive months, because this is considered accidental killing.

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
For causing it.

The questioner:
And that is not securing the pool with barriers or a gate. The scholars mentioned that if one digs a pit and does not place barriers on it, and a person falls into it, he is liable, even with blood money and the expiation as well.

The Shaykh:
So souls are protected and respected; one does not be lax with them. So if you place a pool in your house or in any place, put barriers on it to prevent falling into it. Yes.