Articles labeled: toddler

We bet this guy blames the dog when he farts, too.

An East Haven man has been charged with shoplifting after he allegedly tried to blame his toddler son with the theft.

Twenty-nine-year-old Louis Fallon was nabbed at a handicrafts shop at the Westfield Connecticut Post Mall Wednesday

The charges involve a wooden box worth $32.95 in a bag attached to the rear of the 23-month-old child’s stroller.

Fallon allegedly told police the child swiped it without his knowledge. But police say it would have been physically impossible for the toddler to lift the box.

We had a near “falling television” incident in our house way back when, so we know the inherent dangers. Also, we would think those plasma and LCD TVs that are mounted on a stand instead of the wall might be top heavy and particularly susceptible to tipping over if pulled by little hands.

A 2-year-old girl was severely injured Sunday afternoon when a television fell off its stand and struck her upper body and head, the Cedar Hill Fire Department said.

The child was alone in a bedroom when the incident occurred about 12:45 p.m. in the 300 block of Taurus Drive, police said. Officers were told she was unconscious and bleeding from the mouth and the nose.

Paramedics transported her by Careflite to Children’s Medical Center Dallas where treatment was begun for a fractured skull and swelling to the brain.

The child’s father and four brothers were home at the time of the accident. It is unknown how the TV fell on the girl.

In September, a 7-year-old Plano girl died after a large television set fell on her.

Now, our kids can get just as unruly as the next, and we’ll admit we’ve daydreamed about some creative punishments for the little buggers — locking them in the garage, throwing them in an alligator pit, running them through the car wash… the difference is that these are fantasy stress relievers, we don’t actually do it.

A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.

“She appeared [to be] a parent who thought she was disciplining her child for acting up. It’s a unique form of punishment that I don’t think anyone has ever seen,” Commander Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Friday on TODAY. “It’s not acceptable in my mind.”

The incident began on Feb. 24 when a white Hyundai Elantra pulled into a self-service bay at the Magical Car Wash in Orlando…

Police later determined that the toddler’s mother, who is 22 and five months pregnant, pulled into the car wash for the sole purpose of hosing down her daughter — possibly for wetting herself in the backseat of the car.

At the end of the surveillance tape of the incident, which police seized as potential evidence, the woman is seen stripping her daughter’s soaked clothes off and wrapping her up in a towel.

The woman has since turned herself into police. She has not been publicly identified.

A Chicago man reported his car stolen Monday night, and told police that his 2-year-old son was inside. The police later learned he lied about the abduction, and placed the man into custody. Our armchair theory is that the guy thought the cops would make a better effort to find his car if an endangered child was involved…

The boy’s father told police he had left his 1986 four-door Buick Century running about 9:30 p.m. at the station in the 8700 block of South Cottage Avenue when someone jumped into the vehicle and sped off west on East 87th Street. But police early this morning said although the car was stolen, the toddler was never inside it.

The 24-year-old father is now in custody and likely will be charged with filing a false police report, police said. Meanwhile, the person who stole the vehicle remained at large.

About midnight, the toddler was found safe and unharmed in a residence in the 8800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, said Officer Amina Greer.

Last November, we told you about the little girl who was born with 8 limbs, the result of what doctors call a “parasitic twin”. The girl underwent 24 hours of surgery by 30 surgeons, and we’re happy to report that she is recovering nicely and even has taken her first steps:

Lakshmi’s mother Poonam said her daughter, named for the six-limbed Hindu goddess, gets closer to being a “normal child” with each day that passes, the Daily Telegraph reported.

“Lakshmi always knew she was different,” the girl’s mother told Channel 4. “After the operation she instinctively started behaving like a normal child — it’s like she had always been waiting for the opportunity.”

“When she was put in the baby walker she started pushing herself backwards with her legs and burst into laughter with a huge grin on her face,” Poonam Tatma said in the report. “She loves it.”

Poor little diddle.

A toddler got whisked away, down an airport conveyor belt on an adventure that lead her down 4 miles of tunnels and possibly through an Xray machine.

A two-year-old girl who wandered off in an airport suffered cuts and bruises after she was whisked into a baggage conveyor belt system.

The toddler walked through an empty check-in desk at Manchester Airport and hopped on to the luggage machine.

She was then swept down the four-mile long tunnel of the conveyor system and trapped before being rescued by an engineer.

A source said her clothes had been torn but she only needed hospital treatment for cuts and bruises. It was not known if she had passed through an X-ray machine but she was discovered in the first of three tiers of the baggage system.

But just think of all the things she could get done?…email, laundry, flipping pages from a book and walking on a treadmill — all at the same time.

BANGALORE, India (AP) — Doctors began operating Tuesday on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.

The girl named Lakshmi is joined to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in the mother’s womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.

A mother, working at Hooters in Pheonix, Arizona, allegedly forgot her toddler in the back seat of her car when she went to work. She forgot to drop her baby off at daycare and returned to her car where she discovered her dead son.

This happens so often and why??? Why are parents forgetting about their most precious cargo? Why are daily distractions enough to forget about your own baby? Why is it so common? Could this happen to you??

PHOENIX — A 17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant parking lot was found dead Tuesday afternoon.

FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby’s mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.

Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car.

I know of so many mothers that put their sleepy baby alone, to snooze in a car seat. I know I have done it on occassion, brought a baby asleep in his/her carseat and put the seat on a coffee table, not to wake the baby, or put a baby with reflux to sleep in his/her car seat.

I have never heard of putting a two year old in their seat to sleep. A toddler just isn’t as portable. Not sure why you would strap a two-year old in a seat a let them sleep there. Seems more like tying them down at that age - no?

The police say no charges have been filed, but doesn’t this border on abuse? You don’t strap a toddler into a car seat because they’re being “fussy”! Seems like an act of abuse whether or not charges are ultimately filed or not.

A two-year-old Stafford girl is dead after being left in a car seat overnight.

According to court documents, the toddler’s mother put her in a car seat and left her in a bedroom early Wednesday morning because she was being fussy.