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RSS FeedsWitness pulls diaper-wearing toddler on first-floor rooftop to safety
(The Star Food)

 
 

10 august 2018 23:26:33

 
Witness pulls diaper-wearing toddler on first-floor rooftop to safety
(The Star Food)
 


A toddler captured in a viral video standing on a Hamilton roof was saved thanks to a witness who pulled the boy back inside through a window.Hamilton police responded to the King St. E. address around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, but are not criminally investigating what happened, said Const. Lorraine Edwards.Instead, police are lauding the “quick-thinking” actions of people at the scene.The video, viewed on Facebook more than 100,000 times as of Friday afternoon, shows the boy, wearing only a diaper, standing on a first-floor rooftop at the central Hamilton house, as a crowd of people gather below. The startling image generated speculation about what happened online, including false stories that the child may have fallen.Cassandra Fleet was driving by Wednesday afternoon when she saw the boy on the roof, pulled over and told a friend to call 911.“I was shaking. My heart was beating out of my chest,” she said.When she ran over there was only one man standing below.“I asked if it was his child. He said no,” she said.Read more:Police stage late-night rescue after four-year-old climbs out window of B.C. condoSix-year-old boy dies after suspected fall from Hamilton balconyQuestions and ‘deep pain’ after autopsy says 3-year-old boy pulled from hot car in Burlington died of heatThe house is split into two apartments and the front door was locked, she said. So the two worked together, with Fleet telling the boy: “It’s OK buddy. Just stay put, stay by the wall.”The man broke into the downstairs apartment through a screen window and then went upstairs into the upper-level apartment, where he grabbed the boy through a window, she said.The boy’s mother was apparently napping with a newborn and someone else in the apartment had put the toddler down for a nap, Fleet said she was told.Hamilton police confirmed the boy had been napping in his bedroom before he squeezed through an open window that did not have a s ...


 
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