The calls for help first came in early Sunday morning for the report of a missing toddler on South Pitney Road between East Cresson and Elm avenues.
Police arrived and began scouring the neighborhood.
Soon they made a tragic discovery: the toddler was found motionless in a neighbor's backyard pool.
Emergency workers raced the child to Atlantic Care Regional Medical Center, but the child did not survive.
It was the third drowning involving a child in New Jersey in just two weeks.
Four days earlier, a 4 year old drowned while swimming at a resort in Ocean View, Dennis Township.
Several days before that, a 6-year-old girl vacationing with her family drowned in a pool in Wildwood.
It was not immediately clear if the pool in Galloway Township had a gate, or if police suspect any type of foul play.
The incident remains under investigation.
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