PHILADELPHIA — A toddler who climbed out a second-story window onto the porch roof of his family's row house was followed by his dog, whose barks alerted neighbors who rescued the child.
Phillip Redmond Jr., who will be 2 years old next month, apparently climbed out of a broken bedroom window Sunday and scampered across the narrow porch rooftops of at least eight homes, neighbors said.
The row homes have connected porch roofs; neighbors heard barking and saw the boy running from roof to roof followed by the family's German shepherd, Alfie.
"He was following the baby across," neighbor Tina Mitchell told WPVI-TV. "He was protecting the baby, making sure the baby was all right."
A neighbor, Shavyonn Robinson, was able to grab the toddler from the porch roof of a home a few doors down. The footprints of Phillip and Alfie could be seen in the blacktop coating on the porch roofs.
"First I had my hand sticking out (of the window) trying to grab him," she said. "That's when he tried to run past, because he thought I was playing with him, and he almost fell so I had to go out and get him."
Police questioned the toddler's parents, Phillip Redmond and Katie Berkelback, but no charges have been filed. Child welfare officials placed the boy in the care of relatives while the incident is investigated, said the boy's father, adding that he was embarrassed but grateful that his son was fine.
"It was my fault," he said. "I didn't think he could get out there."
3 comments:
My sister would kill me if she ever knew I wrote this...
When we were kids my mother asked my Dad to watch my sister while he was outside. He was inattentive and she wondered off.
Dad never had to babysit again.
Hmmmm worth remembering :)
when maryjo was around 2 we had a huge huge 120 lb pit bull who was a killer...of other dogs..but he was maryjo's guard dog..and she would poke her fingers in his nose, pull on his tongue..,chew on his ears, stick her hand down his throat..after months of this..he said'fuckit..and knocked her off the porch into a pile of red new mexico dust and pinned her with his weight and proceded to lick her until she was a slobbery mess...she never messed with him again..her hair was dripping from slobber...
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