A 4-year-old Filipino boy is in a critical condition after he apparently fell from the toilet window of the 4th-floor apartment where he lives with his family in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on Friday.
According to police, the boy was found collapsed on the premises of a prefectural housing complex by his older sister at around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, NHK reported. His sister had gone looking for him after he didn’t come out of the toilet in their apartment.
The boy sustained a fractured skull and lower back injuries. He remains unconscious.
Police said no one saw or heard the boy fall.
© Japan Today
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Hercolobus
I do not believe it. First thing as a parent is to teach children of dangers and how to avoid them, including cold and hot, as well as heights, open pit holes, animals, spoiled food, traffic, and strangers. I did all that.
Garthgoyle
Hercolobus
It's a four years old. They don't understand dangers yet and they're always running, climbing, jumping and moving around. Even if you teach them, they're still gonna do it.
Nibek32
Clearly doesn’t have children.
kohakuebisu
Poor kid.
Its depressing to have bars on windows, but any public housing used to house young families needs to protect kids and assume the worse. When possible, such families should be proactively housed on the ground floor. One idea might be to move the family to a higher floor when the youngest is kou-gakunen (fourth grade).
grc
How traumatic for the sister
HopeSpringsEternal
Have to ALWAYS watch little boys, they can get in trouble FAST, and know from LOTS of experience, girls much more careful, easy to see at daycare, school etc.
Let's hope for a full recovery, parents need to step it up a notch, no excuses