An investigation is underway after a near drowning.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says Deputies were dispatched to Mountain Meadows Drive in New Market Friday and were told a 23-month-old child had gone missing and was found in a swimming pool. Family members were performing CPR, when deputies arrived and took over until Jefferson County EMS arrived and took the child to a nearby hospital.
The child was transferred to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and remains in critical condition.
