3-Year-Old Found Crossing Street Alone: Kendall County Sheriff

MONTGOMERY, IL — A DCFS investigation is underway after Kendall County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a 3-year-old crossing the street alone. Police said the toddler was seen crossing the street unsupervised in the 0-99 block of Hampton Road at around 4:48 p.m. Monday in unincorporated Montgomery.

Police were able to locate the child's mother, who resides in the 0-99 block of Spring Garden Road.

Mother and child were reunited and DCFS was contacted, police said. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

The incident was the second in less than a week in which a toddler got reportedly dangerously close to traffic. On Thursday, an 18-month-old was saved by a Good Samaritan after crawling through a hole in a fenceoutside a Douglas Road daycare.