Toddler dies in swimming pool at Taunton home

By Maddie Hanna, Globe Correspondent

TAUNTON -- A one-year-old boy drowned this morning in a swimming pool at his home, police said.

Jacob Ebenberg-Carey was found in the pool at the home on Kilmer Avenue at about 7:40 a.m.

Police said the mother, who has five children, realized at some point this morning she didn't know where her youngest was and went outside and saw him in the pool.

Police aren't sure how the child got out of the house, said Police Chief Raymond O'Berg.

O'Berg said a door leads from the house onto a deck, and a swimming pool is attached to the deck. He said it wasn't very far from the door to the pool. "Almost, if you went out the door, the pool was there," he said.

"You can speculate," he said. "Kids leave doors open."

O'Berg said Taunton police and investigators from the district attorney's office are looking into the incident. "It's clearly an accident, but you investigate it," he said.

He said the family was overwhelmed with grief and had asked for privacy.

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