Jacksonville park memorializes Amari Harley, 3, who died in septic tank
The park on Arlington Road looks a lot different now, four years after 3-year-old Amari Harley fell into a septic tank and died. There's a fence around the tank hatches, covered in steel plates with padlocks, where he fell in due to a faulty cover and drowned in sewage. Laughing children now play on new slides, kid-friendly swings and other playground gear at what the city just designated as Amari Harley Playground, remembering his death there on Oct. 22, 2017. Standing next to the plaque bearing the smiling face of a son who would have turned 7 on Feb. 20, Jasmine Bates thanked everyone f...
Source: jacksonville.com