A 5-year-old autistic boy drowned in a pond in Kennett Township on Monday afternoon, April 29.
“The detective from the Kennett Township Police Department and the Chester County Detectives are investigating the facts and circumstances that led to the boy’s death,” according to a press release.
Kennett Township Police said they would not release the boy’s name until “all next-of-kin notifications have been made.”
The boy was reported missing Monday afternoon from the 600 block of Chandler Mill Road and was later found face down in a neighbor’s pond. Police were dispatched at 2:46 p.m. and checked the house, neighborhood, and nearby woods, according to the release, and also requested assistance from Kennett and Longwood fire companies, Longwood EMS, and a drone from the Southern Chester County Regional Police.
“Before the requested backup arrived, Kennett Township found the missing boy face down in a pond on a neighbor’s property,” the police said in the release. “Officers dove into the pond, removed the child, and immediately began CPR until the arrival of Longwood Fire and EMS. Life-saving measures continued as the boy was transported to (Nemours Children’s) Hospital. Despite all additional efforts, the child was pronounced dead at the hospital.”
About Monica Fragale
Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
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