Officer Troy Deshong says it's unclear how the boy got into the pit. It's surrounded by a chain-link fence and 42 feet in diameter. He tells the (Lancaster) Sunday News that the boy's mother said he might have been trying to retrieve a dog.
Boy, 4, drowns in manure pit on central Pa. farm
LANCASTER, PA
Police say Josiah Martin was playing with two siblings and a
neighbor child Saturday morning on the farm just outside New
Holland when he wandered off. He was later found face-down in the
8-foot-deep pit and pronounced dead at the scene.
