Toddler Doing Fine After Falling From Apartment Window
The 18-month-old girl who fell from the third story of an apartment building has been released from the hospital
The 18-month-old girl who fell through a third-story window of building D in Mentor Mall Village Apartments on June 26 was released from the hospital and is back with her family, Mentor Police Sgt. Michael Majernik said.
"The child is doing fine," Majernik said.
He added that no criminal charges will be filed because of the incident.
The girl fell by accident, authorities said.
The girl had climbed on a bed that was adjacent to the window. The window was already open but had a screen in place. However, it looks like the girl knocked the screen out when she leaned against it, Mentor Fire Deputy Chief Robert Searles said previously.
The girl fell about 20 feet and landed on grass. Paramedics took her to Hillcrest Hospital from where she has since been released.
As a safety tip, Searles noted that people who have children in their homes can make them safer by arranging the furniture so kids cannot reach windows.
Additionally, there are ways to make it so windows can lock when they are partly opened, he said. He recommended people retrofit their windows in such a way as part of baby proofing.
Zachary Shook
12:31 pm on Monday, August 27, 2012
Considering 9/10 of that place is pavement and parking lots, especially the building they're talking about has MINIMAL grass, thank God this little girl bounced back the way she did, and without harm. Hopefully everyone learned their lesson here.
Those apartments concern me. I used to live there, and apart from the criminals they let live there, the ones they hire as maintenance and staff ought to do the work they say they're going to do, as noted in the white sheets they leave at the Civic Center Zoning Department, or wherever applicable with work orders and secretaries entrusting the other staff members for the work they're entrusted to do, especially on a chalant routine schedule. Accidents can be averted with a little responsibility on the behalf of everyone there.
And if this wasn't a requirement to instruct their tenants of before, it ought to be now, especially with a Fire Department Chief suggesting it.