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2-year-old child drowns in above-ground swimming pool

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PROVIDENCE, KY (WFIE) -

The Kentucky State Police are investigating the drowning of a 2-year-old child.

On Tuesday, the KSP Post 2 Madisonville received a call from the Hopkins County coroner in reference to a two-year-old that had been transported to the Regional Medical Center in Madisonville.  The child had been found unresponsive in a swimming pool at a home on Highland Avenue in Providence.  

The coroner pronounced the victim, Hayden Hubbard, dead at the RMC.

The preliminary investigation revealed that the child was left unattended for a short time and appears to have climbed the ladder to the above-ground pool and fell in. 

Foul play is not suspected.  An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning at the State Medical Examiner's Office in Louisville. 

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