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The family of a 4-year-old Kentucky girl who drowned in a pool in South Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the resort — where two other children have died over three years.

Demi Williams drowned on April 1, 2021 in one of the pools at the Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark in Myrtle Beach. Officials said died from asphyxiation due to drowning, WPDE reported.

The resort had no lifeguards and was poorly lit, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family, which hopes the action will lead to more safety measures to prevent more tragedies, NBC News reported.

“Something has to be done,” Demi’s mom, Destiny Morgan, told the outlet  in her first interview since she lost her child. “I have to do something in honor of my child to make sure that this never happens again.”

Morgan said a nurse detected a faint pulse after Demi was pulled from the pool and that other guests rushed to find a defibrillator to resuscitate the girl.

But the lifesaving devices — which may pose a risk of electrocution when used on drowning victims — are not required by state law to be put in swimming areas and were unavailable to the rescuers.

State law all doesn’t require the resort to have lifeguards at all its pools, NBC News reported.

Demi is at least the third child to have drowned at Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark between 2018 and 2021, including a 5-year-old boy who died a few days after Demi, according to the outlet.

The lawsuit, which seeks monetary damages, accuses the resort of creating “unsafe, dangerous, or defective” conditions by not having a lifeguard on duty and failing to provide an adequate number workers to protect guests, among other allegations.

It blames the death on Crown Reef’s “negligent, reckless, willful” actions.

The lawsuit, which seeks monetary damages, accuses the resort of creating “unsafe, dangerous, or defective” conditions by not having a lifeguard on duty and failing to provide an adequate number workers to protect guests, among other allegations.

Morgan, who has four other children, described Demi as “the sweetest little girl” who was having a great time in the resort’s lazy river attraction, which has a gentle current that allows guests to go tubing.

She said her daughter asked if she could ride in a raft by herself in the 3-foot-deep water.

​Morgan said she sat in a nearby hot tub after allowing Demi to ride in her own tube behind her sister. But when the sister got off the ride, she couldn’t find Demi, according to NBC News.

The frantic mom searched the grounds for Demi before she noticed another guest pulling her out of one of the resort’s pools, not breathing. Neither she nor her other kids know how Demi got there from the lazy river, but Morgan said her daughter may have slipped and fallen in.

Several guests began chest compressions, including the nurse who detect a faint pulse and yelled for an automated external defibrillator, or AED, which delivers an electric shock to the heart.

But no one could find an AED, a lifeguard or even a resort staff member, the lawsuit alleges.

“There wasn’t anything that would indicate that they gave a damn about a human life,” Morgan told NBC News.Demi was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.