A 2-year-old girl found face down in a wading pool by her mother yesterday afternoon was successfully revived by paramedics and was breathing on her own later at Allegheny General Hospital, police said.

	Steve Mellon, Post-Gazette Family members comfort each other after a two-year-old Marshall-Shadeland girl was found face down in a wading pool yesterday afternoon. The girl was revived and was later breathing on her own, police said.

The Marshall-Shadeland toddler, who neighbors said is named Justice, had been playing in the family's living room. She wandered through an open door onto the back porch, where, her mother told police, she probably tripped into the inflatable green pool. The girl had been in the water for about a minute when her mother discovered her there.

Emergency crews arrived around 1:45 p.m., and shortly after, a paramedic rushed out, carrying a girl in his arms, neighbors said.

"It was shocking. Her skin color was green and her body was loose," said Bertha Kowach, who lives across the street from the family. Bob Schmidt, who lives up the block, said the girl "looked like a rag doll."

Kowach, 46, said the girl's mother, Vicky Shamonsky, looked distraught and the front of her shirt was sopping wet.

Police Sgt. Joseph Gannon said the near drowning appeared to be an accident, but said that whenever a child is seriously hurt, it is standard procedure to notify the police bureau's Sex Assault and Family Crisis unit.

The back yard of the house at 2330 Atmore St., where Vicky Shamonsky was also raised by her mother, was scattered with assorted toys -- rubber balls, a miniature basketball hoop and a small bike.

Neighbors often saw Justice and her older brother, who is about 4, playing back there. At a recent baby shower, Kowach said, Justice was toddling tentatively around, trying out her limited new vocabulary.