California toddler falls out of moving car, mother charged

A California parent was arrested connected felony kid maltreatment charges aft a viral video showed her 19-month-old kid falling from a moving SUV astatine a engaged Fullerton intersection, constabulary said Monday.

The Fullerton Police Department said it became alert of the video, which shows a achromatic SUV turning astatine an intersection erstwhile a passenger-side doorway abruptly opens. A tiny kid past falls retired of the conveyance and onto the roadway.

The SUV instantly stops, and a car pursuing down narrowly avoids colliding with it. The car stops conscionable abbreviated of the kid connected the roadway.

The video shows an big pistillate moving from the driver’s side, picking up the kid and placing the toddler backmost wrong the SUV earlier driving away.

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A achromatic SUV turns astatine an intersection erstwhile a passenger-side doorway abruptly opens and a tiny kid falls retired of the conveyance and onto the roadway. (Fullerton Police Department)

A witnesser called constabulary connected Saturday and provided identifying accusation astir the vehicle. Officers traced the SUV to a location successful La Habra, wherever they located the vehicle, the kid and a fishy believed to beryllium the pistillate seen successful the video.

A car pursuing the SUV narrowly avoided hitting the kid and SUV. (Fullerton Police Department)

Police identified the kid arsenic a 19-month-old who suffered injuries accordant with the fall. The toddler was taken to a adjacent infirmary for attraction and is expected to marque a afloat recovery.

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The fishy was identified arsenic Jacqueline Hernandez, 35, of La Habra, and the child’s mother. She was arrested and booked into the Fullerton City Jail for felony kid abuse, constabulary said.

The child's mother, identified arsenic Jacqueline Hernandez, 35, of La Habra, picks the kid up from the road. Hernandez was aboriginal arrested and charged with felony kid abuse, constabulary said. (Fullerton Police Department)

Neighbors told FOX11 Los Angeles that the household has respective children and could not judge the parent would enactment her children successful specified a unsafe situation.

"I can’t excuse thing similar that, I’m sorry," a neighbour who wished to stay anonymous told the section station.

Investigators judge the incidental occurred betwixt 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. connected Jan. 20. Police said they did not person immoderate exigency calls related to the incidental astatine the time.

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The probe remains ongoing, and constabulary are asking anyone with further accusation to interaction the Fullerton Police Department’s Sensitive Crimes Unit.