A 2-year-old girl drowned after falling into a septic tank in New Jersey this week, an autopsy revealed Tuesday. According to many media accounts, the toddler went missing outside a “ramshackle’’ Lakewood, N.J. home where her family lived. Police investigating the missing girl on Monday discovered a 3-foot-wide hole in the yard that led to a septic tank.
A man who rented a room at the house told authorities he was surprised the hole was large enough for the girl to fall through. A neighbor reported that he’d smelled a foul odor around the septic tank for more than a year
