COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A toddler was found facedown in an inflatable swimming pool 25 minutes after family members said she went missing.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Jaedyn Marshall, 2, drowned in a family member’s back yard swimming pool Sunday evening.
The grandfather was with her. He went inside to get the phone, and the children were playing on the swing. As he went inside, she went into the pool, said Detective Larry McDowell with the Franklin County sheriff’s office.
Family located the 2-year-old girl almost a half an hour after that.
Detectives said she climbed the steps and got into the inflatable pool.
Officials told NBC 4 she was fully clothed when found.
Rescuers began CPR immediately and transported her to Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Jaedyn was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m.
The drowning happened at a pool on the 2000 block of Sale Road on the city’s North Side.
Neighbors said the family had been good about keeping the ladder up and out of reach of small hands and inexperienced swimmers.
“My mother-in-law lives on the street. So I drive up it all the time, and you never see a ladder in the pool – never,” Marie Stober said.
Keep your pools secured, preferably with a fence around them. If you don't have a fence around them or someone qualified to be around the children, take the ladders out of the pools, McDowell said.
The back yard pool is not fenced off and visible from the street.
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