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A water park co-owner charged in the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy on a 17-story Kansas waterslide was freed on bond Wednesday as the criminal case moved forward against him and two others.
Jeff Henry, an owner of Texas-based Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts, posted a US$500,000 bond within hours of being booked into the Wyandotte County jail in Kansas.
Henry was extradited from Texas, where he lives, after he was indicted last week on charges including second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab at the water park in Kansas City, Kansas.
Caleb was riding the Verruckt water slide at the park when the raft he was on went airborne and hit an overhead loop on the slide, decapitating him.


Henry attorney didn’t immediately reply to a phone message seeking comment. Henry is due in court on Thursday.
The slide’s designer, John Schooley, was arrested Monday in Texas and also faces charges including second-degree murder.
During a hearing on Wednesday, he agreed to be extradited to Kansas and will be transferred there next week, said Dallas County sheriff’s spokesman Raul Reyna. A lawyer for Schooley did not respond to a request for comment.
Tyler Austin Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn, has also been charged with manslaughter. He was booked into the Wyandotte County jail on Friday and is being held on US$50,000 bond.

A Kansas grand jury indicted Henry and Schooley on charges that Henry made a “spur of the moment” decision to build the Verruckt — touted as the world’s tallest waterslide — and that he and Schooley lacked technical or engineering expertise in amusement park rides.
Prosecutors argue that the ride violated “nearly all aspects” of longstanding standards established by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
“In fact, the design and operation of the Verruckt complied with few, if any, of the industry safety standard,” the indictment states.
Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio said in an earlier statement that the indictment “is filled with information that we fully dispute.”



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Man blamed for decapitation of 10-year-old on his water park’s slide is  free on bond

Caleb Schwab. Photo: Schwab family

Caleb Schwab died on the Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kan., in August 2016. A Schlitterbahn executive has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. (Keith Myers/Kansas City Star/TNS)

FILE - In this July 9, 2014, file photo, riders go down the water slide called "Verruckt" at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. A former executive with the Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy died on the giant waterslide has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Tyler Austin Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn, was booked into the Wyandotte County jail Friday, March 23, 2018 and is being held on $50,000 bond. Caleb Schwab died in August 2016 on the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the park in western Kansas City, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Tyler Miles. (Wyandotte County Detention Center)

Jeff Henry, an owner of the Schlitterbahn water park, is charged in the death of Caleb Schwab, a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated in 2016 while riding on a waterslide at the park in Kansas City, Kansas. Photo: Wyandotte County Detention Center via AP

Water slide decapitation of Caleb Schwab, 10, leads to murder charges for designer and park owner

Caleb Schwab was killed while riding the Verruckt water slide in Kansas. Photo: Schwab family

In this July 2014 image from video, the Verruckt water slide designers, John Schooley, left, and Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeffrey Henry, speak about the challenges of opening the 17-story tall attraction prior to it's operation in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas attorney general's office says Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts co-owner Jeffrey Henry and ride designer John Schooley are charged with reckless second-degree murder in the indictment unsealed Tuesday March 27, 2018. The charges stem from the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab who was decapitated in 2016 when his ride went airborne at the water park in Kansas City. (Monty Davis /The Kansas City Star via AP)

***ONE TIME USE ONLY*** The Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Photo: Reuters

This photo provided by The Wyandotte County Detention Center in Kansas City, Kan., shows Tyler Miles on Friday, March 23, 2018. Miles, an executive with the Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy died on a giant waterslide has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn, was booked into the Wyandotte County jail Friday and is being held on $50,000 bond. Caleb Schwab died in August 2016 on the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the park in western Kansas City, Kansas. (Wyandotte County Detention Center via AP)

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