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A little girl is in serious but stable condition after falling out a seventh floor window in the Bronx. WABC 7 reports the eight-year-old "plunged from the window at the Castle Hill Houses on Seward Avenue just before 1:30 a.m... The girl survived the fall, and detectives believe she is not likely to die." She is being treated by Jacobi Medical Center for her injuries. The window at her apartment building also has window guards, so it's unclear how she fell out. Last week, two children fell to their deaths from windows. The city requires apartment buildings to have window guards in homes with children under 11 years old, but there are no such requirements for houses.
8-Year-Old Survives Fall From 7th Floor Window
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I was about to think that's too bad, another sad story about a little kid - then I noticed that it was an 8 year old! How the hell did the 8 year old not know better than to climb over the window guards and fall out the window? I think of that as a toddler sort of thing!
"The city requires apartment buildings to have window guards in homes with children under 11 years old, but there are no such requirements for houses."
DUH!!! The Castle Hill Houses are apartment buildings.
In theory, once a kid is old enough to figure out how to open those guards he's smart enough not to fall out.
poor thing, if they had the windows open, that means no AC most likely, i'd wanna jump too.
I think that last sentence about the guard requirements was leftover/taken from the other Brooklyn story about the kid who fell from the house.
Agreed that an 8 year old would know better to climb around the guards, but it's a strange time of night for a kid to be up and about messing with the window. Perhaps trying to sneak out?
Yeah, the last sentence is a reminder/FYI that guards are required in apartments, but not houses.
The kid could have been sleepwalking. Sounds crazy, but my when my mom was a kid she woke up to find my aunt climbing out of the window in their apartment building. She pulled her back in and started to yell at her, and found that my aunt was still asleep.
Lucky for her that this wasn't in Brooklyn!