Newark Toddler Hospitalized After Falling From Window

NEWARK, NJ — A two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Sunday evening after he fell from a two-story window at a Newark home, according to city officials.

The toddler fell from a building at the intersection of 16th Avenue and South 6th Street, after which his mother ran to the local police station with her son in her arms, officials said.

The boy was in stable condition as of early Monday morning, the Newark Department of Public Safety told Patch.

No additional information was immediately available.

Between 2018-2022, about 30 small children were rushed into the University Hospital Newark ER after they fell from windows, according to Dr. Virteeka Sinha, a pediatric ER doctor at the hospital, who has treated this horror firsthand.

"Most of these falls occurred in May, when people are opening windows again after the winter," said Dr. Sinha. "In the past four-year period, there were about 30 children seen in our emergency department with injuries from window falls."

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