Toddlers

Parents of toddler Natalie Jasmer wound up calling police when they couldn’t find her after they started an innocent game of hide and seek. Apparently, the last laughs on the parents as the toddler’s mad ‘hide and seek’ skills kept her parents from finding her for hours. She is reportedly banned from ever playing the game again…

GREENVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania toddler did such a remarkable job of hiding during a game of hide-and-seek that the family had to call police and firefighters to help find her. Two-year-old Natalie Jasmer was playing the game with her siblings Tuesday in their Pymatuning Township home. When the family couldn’t find her, parents Dennis and Michelle Jasmer called authorities.

In a very sad story, a little boy was left home alone with a dead man’s body for what police think might have been up to 5 days. Neighbors called police as a rancid odor became more potent and flies began covering the windows. Neighbors say they didn’t know that a young boy was living there and didn’t know the adults who only moved into the apatment about 2 weeks prior.

The body and the boy, who is probably 3 or 4 years old, were discovered today at an apartment building along Agler Road. The man, who police could not immediately positively identify, might have been dead three to five days.

McCoskey said there was nothing suspicious about the death, so most of the efforts this afternoon were being focused on finding someone to help the child. He said they still are sorting it all out.

Can you say “prodigy”?

Karina Oakley of Guildford, Surrey, near London, has an IQ of 160 — the same as physics professor Stephen Hawking and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, London’s Daily Mail reports.

“She has a very good memory,” her mother, Charlotte Fraser, told the Mail. “She seems to be quite aware of her surroundings, what’s going on around her, she’s very observant, she talks all the time, asks questions all the time.”

A 2-year-old is going to have her license taken away after she rammed her dad’s car through a garage door.

A 2-year-old girl in Nebraska suffered severe injuries while attending a horse show. She apparently got too near one of the horses who became startled and kicked its hind leg into her face. Why a toddler was allowed to get so near a back of a horse, we don’t know. The poor girl suffered major injuries, including a shattered nose and eye socket.

Inflicted with bacterial meningitis, most people don’t survive it, but little Landon Bean shows his resilience as he adjusts to life without his hands and feet.

“He’s been in and out of the hospital for 3 months, and had 13 surgeries,” she says.

The surgeries were to amputate his feet and most of his hands and to clear his skin of gangrene.”

A Wisconsin toddler was seriously injured after being pinned against a wall by a cow.

A Texas toddler who went missing was later found inside a local dollar store.

Late Monday morning, Detective Randy Stevens said a canvass of the neighborhood turned up a family member searching for the child, who was released to a parent around noon.

Police are withholding his identity.

A police statement says store surveillance video showed the 2 or 3-year-old boy trying to get in one of the front doors of the store around 3 a.m. Monday.

That door was locked, but a second door wasn’t, and the toddler went inside.

When he did, he triggered the silent alarm that brought officers to the store.

Wow, what a fortunate happenstance.

A 2-year-old boy escaped serious injuries Sunday night when the impact from a car that hit his grandmother who was carrying him sent him rolling into the vehicle’s sunroof and landing safely inside the vehicle, police said.

The 45-year-old woman was carrying her grandson in her arms as she attempted to cross the intersection of Bynum and King avenues and a car struck her, police said.

The impact sent the woman crashing to the ground, police said. Her grandson flew from her arms and smashed into the car’s windshield. The toddler then rolled up the windshield and through an open sunroof and landed safely on the car’s passenger seat, police said.

Gah! A toddler is thankfully on the mend after getting a car key lodged in his eyeball.

Chris and Staci Holderman of Perryville at first thought that their 1-year-old son, Nicholas, might lose his eye after he fell off a recliner in September.

Nicholas spent six days in the hospital. Doctors found no brain damage, but were worried at first that the eye had ruptured. It hadn’t.

Six days after the accident, Nicholas was able to open his eye. And six weeks later, doctors say his vision is almost perfect.

If this isn’t a freak accident, we don’t know what is.

A 2-year-old boy was badly burned Tuesday night after falling face-first into a hot three-gallon pot of water or food.

The incident occurred about 7 p.m. near 16th Street and Arlington Avenue on the city’s Eastside while one family was cooking dinner for another, said Sgt. Paul Thompson, a spokesman for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Thompson said that two adults were carrying the pot in a milk crate. The boy ran up behind the adults and fell into the pot face first, with his hands and arms following, Thompson said.

A toddler around 2 years old was found by himself walking along an East Boston neighborhood — at 4 o’clock in the morning.

A livery driver spotted the child with dark, curly brown hair and brown eyes on White Street near Meridian Street and, because it was late and there was no one on the street, called 911.

Police arriving at the scene found the driver holding the child in his arms. The boy’s legs felt cool to the touch — the temperature dropped into the 50s last night — so he was placed in a police car and taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Officers canvassed the area looking for the boy’s parents or witnesses. With no luck. Then, at about 6:30 a.m. officers received a report that a frantic female was looking for her son on White Street.

Another day, another story about a toddler being left at the airport.

An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday.

The couple and their five children were late for a charter flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport, Israel’s bustling main international air portal. He said the officer alerted airline staff, but the flight had already taken off.

The incident happened on what Israeli media said was one of the busiest days of the year at the Israeli airport, with thousands of people leaving for summer vacations abroad. The Haaretz newspaper reported that 2.6 million passengers are expected to pass through the airport in July and August, an increase of 12 percent compared to the same period last year.

The parents of a two-year-old found wandering along a freeway in Austin, Texas, have decided to speak to the media to defend themselves.

The father, who did not want to be identified tells KXAN that they got their two year old, almost three year old boy back late Friday from Child Protective Services. The boy showed his parents how he had unlocked the door and deadbolt. Now, they say they are going to get another lock for the door that will reach higher than the deadbolt they have now.

The mother, who also didn’t want to be identified, told KXAN that their son is used to sleeping with his parents and that night, they had made him sleep in his own bed and that he was probably scared and was trying to look for them. She says she wants people to know that “it wasn’t something that we just didn’t care that our kid was missing for six or seven hours, we were sleeping.”

Police are looking into the death of a three-year-old girl who was found unresponsive in her home.

Paramedics responded to the 1100 Block of E. City Hall Ave in the Tidewater Park Apartments at 4:46 a.m., and pronounced the toddler deceased at 4:53 a.m. The child’s body will be taken to the medical examiner for an autopsy.

Investigators didn’t indicate that there was any evidence of trauma or other signs of foul play. It’s normal procedure for police to investigate any untimely or unexpected death involving young children.