{"id":40898,"date":"2025-11-21T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40898\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:51:10","slug":"woman-wasnt-watching-boy-who-drowned-in-salisbury-township-police-update-local-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40898\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman wasn’t watching boy who drowned in Salisbury Township: police [update] | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: Updated Friday morning with additional details.<\/p>\n

A Lancaster County woman was leaf blowing and not properly watching children she was babysitting when one of them\u00a0fell into a pond and drowned<\/a>\u00a0last month, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n

Anna King, 40, of Paradise, was charged Thursday with two counts of child endangerment related to the death of 2-year-old\u00a0Lee Micah Zook<\/a>. On Oct. 23, Zook fell into a fenced-in swimming pond<\/a>\u00a0on King\u2019s farm on the 1500 block of Mine Road in Salisbury Township farm and was taken off life support at Hershey Medical Center on Oct. 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a tragic accident. Ms. King is terribly sorry for what occurred. We will work with the district attorney to find a speedy and appropriate resolution,\u201d Christopher Sarno, King\u2019s attorney, said Friday.<\/p>\n

Zook and King\u2019s 4-year-old son had been playing in a barn and slipped out and crawled under the pond\u2019s fence and then the King\u2019s son went to get his two dogs at a neighbor\u2019s house, according to police.<\/p>\n

According to charging documents, King panicked when she saw her son with his dogs and not Zook. She then saw Zook floating in the pond, told a neighbor to call 911 and, using a flotation tube, swam to retrieve him and performed CPR along with a neighbor until emergency workers arrived.<\/p>\n

State police said King told them that half an hour probably passed between seeing the boys at the barn and finding Zook in the pond.<\/p>\n

King is free on unsecured bail. She has a preliminary hearing scheduled Dec. 3 before District Judge Raymond Sheller.<\/p>\n

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