MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 23-month-old boy died Tuesday evening after being found floating in a pond on his family’s property, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
The child was playing outside in the yard along Darling Street with family members shortly after 5 p.m. when he slipped out of sight for a brief period. When the child’s mother and aunt realized he was missing, they began searching for him and found him in a pond on the property.<\/p>\n
The family immediately rushed the toddler to Cleveland Clinic South, where medical staff performed lifesaving efforts. Despite their attempts, he was pronounced dead in the emergency room.<\/p>\n
Family members told investigators the child was out of their sight for no more than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Martin County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigators interviewed everyone present at the scene and are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the tragedy. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 23-month-old boy died Tuesday evening after being found floating in a pond on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2805,28,1160,171,173,172,22710,179,12758],"class_list":["post-414753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-drowning","tag-florida","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-toddler","tag-treasure-coast","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}