Parents sue Coconut Grove Sailing Club

Miami, FL (October 20, 2025) – The parents of an 11-year-old girl have filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, alleging negligence after their daughter was struck by a motorboat propeller during a summer camp session.

According to the complaint filed today in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Bolivar and Michelle Viteri said their daughter, Catherine, was swimming as instructed during camp on July 10 when a counselor operating a motorboat ran over her, severely lacerating her right leg.

“The photographs of her leg are so gory you couldn’t show them in a horror movie,” said the Viteri family’s attorney Justin Shapiro of Leesfield & Partners. “The tissue, the nerves, the muscle, all of it was severed down to the bone.” – Full report