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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Child rescued from locked car

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Fast act­ing po­lice of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion yes­ter­day res­cued a young, hys­ter­i­cal child from the back seat of a locked car, parked in Price Plaza, Ch­agua­nas. Some 40 min­utes lat­er, the same of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed an old­er male rel­a­tive who even­tu­al­ly made his way back to the car with a trol­ley full of goods from the near­by PriceS­mart.

The po­lice of­fi­cers were forced to break the glass of the black Toy­ota Corol­la to get the child out and the weep­ing young boy clung to a fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer who gave him a bot­tle of wa­ter. The old­er man, of Chi­nese de­scent, did not speak much Eng­lish but chal­lenged the ar­rest­ing po­lice of­fi­cer, ask­ing what he was be­ing ar­rest­ed for.

The Sun­day Guardian spoke with eye­wit­ness­es who said the shop­pers no­ticed the child cry­ing and gasp­ing for air in the locked ve­hi­cle. They flagged down a pass­ing po­lice ve­hi­cle and of­fi­cers re­act­ed quick­ly to re­move the child from the hot, air­less ve­hi­cle.No one could say how long the child was in the ve­hi­cle, but shop­pers said the mall was very busy and shop­ping was tak­ing some time.

The male rel­a­tive, dressed in a grey T-shirt, blue jeans and white cap, paid lit­tle at­ten­tion to the child in the of­fi­cer's arms; he ges­tic­u­lat­ed at the bro­ken glass.Of­fi­cers hand­cuffed the man and called a wreck­er to re­move his car.In a sub­se­quent in­ter­view with Cen­tral Di­vi­sion head, se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent John­nie Abra­ham, the Sun­day Guardian learned that the man would be charged with child en­dan­ger­ment."The child is be­tween one and two years old," he said.

"He was no­ticed to be sweat­ing pro­fuse­ly and gasp­ing for breath and of­fi­cers were forced to break the glass to get him out," Abra­ham said.Cu­ri­ous on­look­ers and wit­ness­es re­called a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion just last week when 17-month-old Jae­don Cud­joe died af­ter be­ing left un­at­tend­ed in a locked car for sev­er­al hours."Peo­ple have to be held ac­count­able. Jump high, jump low, he go­ing to be charged," Abra­ham said.


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