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Homosassa - Citrus County Sheriff's Office dispatchers received a call just after 12 noon on Sunday about an unresponsive female toddler pulled from a canal off the Homosassa River.

The family of 21-month-old Cayla Barnes had traveled from their home in Citrus Springs to 5752 S. Beaver Point for a day of boating with the child's grandmother.  As they were stocking the pontoon boat and preparing to launch, family members momentarily lost track of Cayla, then spotted her in the water.

Her father and a neighbor recovered the youngster from the canal and performed CPR until EMS arrived on scene.  The toddler was transported to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at 1:19 p.m.

Cayla's body will be taken to the medical examiner's office in Leesburg for autopsy to determine the actual cause and manner of death.