2-year-old falls into septic tank, dies LAKEWOOD, N.J., March 13 (UPI) -- A 2 year-old girl was found dead in a septic tank in a Lakewood, N.J., back yard two hours after she was reported missing, police said. The girl, identified only as J.C., was playing in the yard with her four brothers and sisters Monday afternoon when she fell down a hole into the septic tank, Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford said. Police were called by the child's mother, Marina Matias, and "search teams found a small, 3-foot-wide hole in the yard, apparently to a septic tank," Ford said in a prepared statement. The Lakewood Township Public Works Department pumped out the tank, and emergency personnel found the girl's body late Monday, the Asbury Park, N.J., Press reported. The search for the child involved local police, the Ocean County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit and a State police helicopter, police said. The investigation into her death will be conducted by the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.