A three-year-old girl slipped out of an apartment and fell out of a building window in the Bronx
'18.08.2022'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
On August 17, a 3-year-old girl fell out of a window in the Bronx. She slipped out the front door of her apartment on the second floor and ran up the stairs to the next floor. Her grandfather, in a panic, tried to catch up with the child, reports Daily News.
Grandpa Michel Boadu was returning home from work. He was entering an apartment on Sheridan Avenue, near 172 E Street, in Claremont, around 19:35 pm when the baby slipped out into the porch.
Camera footage shows Michelle running down the hallway and diving into the stairwell just before the family ran out to look for her.
“She went up to the third floor right after her grandfather returned, not 45 seconds after that,” said Manuel Vargas, the building manager.
Three adults were in the apartment with Michelle, where every window has protection.
“I looked for her everywhere,” explained Andrews Sarpong, Michelle’s grandfather. “I didn’t know where she was.”
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A few minutes later, a neighbor from the sixth floor heard a thud.
“It was so loud I thought there had been a car accident downstairs,” John remarked. - Looking out the window, I saw that the child was lying on the scaffolding. Blood was flowing from his mouth. The girl tried to get up, but could not.
A man named Sarpong came running to help.
“She was conscious,” Sarpong, 56, said. - The girl was crying. If there were no forests, she would have died. I feel so bad. I was there when it happened."
Medics took Michelle to New York-Presbyterian Columbia Hospital, where she is recovering.
“There are no windows in the hallway on this side of the building, only apartments,” said a neighbor who spotted Michel. - Which window? Which floor? That's the secret."
Police later said Michelle fell from the third floor onto scaffolding at second floor level.
The building is built on a slope, and at its highest point it is eight stories high.
