PENNSAUKEN TWP. — A panicked 911 caller reported that the 2-year-old victim of an unsolved November 2016 homicide here was turning pale before her eyes and throwing up blood.

In a copy of the 8-minute call provided to NJ Advance Media following a record request to Camden County authorities, a female caller can be heard pleading with dispatchers to get an ambulance to the Pennsauken home where the incident occurred.

“Please send an ambulance. It’s urgent,” the unidentified caller says, telling 911 operators that she was taking care of the boy at the time. “He’s awake with his eyes half open, but he’s getting pale,” she adds through an interpreter.

The 2-year-old’s death, which was first reported late last month by the Courier-Post, was allegedly caused by blunt-force trauma by an unknown suspect at his Woodland Avenue home. An arrest in the case has yet to be announced.

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The toddler’s death was not initially reported by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. In a statement provided last week, the office said in part that it “chose not to publicize this toddler’s death since doing so was unnecessary to our investigation. In cases involving the death of a child, we must be mindful of how releasing information could affect the victim’s loved ones.”

While the boy’s death did not appear on the prosecutor’s office list of yearly homicide victims, it was however reflected on New Jersey State Police’s fourth quarter Uniform Crime Report.

“Right now I need to know if this child is awake or is not awake,” the 911 operator tells an interpreter though the woman’s pleas for help.

According to the call, the woman said the boy was drinking something and accidentally defecated on himself after saying his stomach hurt.

“He’s losing blood. He said his stomach hurt,” the woman tells dispatchers. “He’s opening his eyes but he doesn’t answer at all.”

Toward the end of the call, EMS first responders can be heard entering the home and asking, “What happened? Where was he at?”

According to previous reports, the case was not initially investigated as a homicide and its occurrence was not reported because an arrest hadn’t been made at the time.

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