Aiken County Coroner Darryl Ables said the mother of a 1-year-old Trenton girl who died Monday was visiting Carolina Bay Park in Aiken to show her child the geese and other water fowl.
The mom said she went to another point of the pond and slipped and fell in with her 1-year-old daughter, Paisley Hyatt. The mother then found her daughter and called 911. First responders started CPR, but the child was pronounced dead later at Aiken Regional Medical Centers.
The accident at the pond happened around 4 p.m. Monday at the Carolina Bay Park on Price Avenue, which is identified online as Carolina Bay Nature Reserve in Aiken.
The child will be autopsied Wednesday morning in Newberry.
The Coroner’s Office along with the Aiken Department of Public Safety and SLED are continuing with the investigation, Ables said. It is customary to ask for assistance from the State Law Enforcement Division because the death involves a child.
A spokesman for the Aiken Department of Public Safety said more information should be released on Wednesday.
