This is something that just sticks out in your mind. Parents need to be careful. Cardwell said the boy had been released from doctors' care after treatment at two local hospitals. The parents of the children declined to comment. Police did not file charges in the incidents.
Paramedics say children who fall out of windows most commonly receive very serious head injuries.
They are designed to keep insects out and not to keep kids in. He did suggest keeping second-story windows closed when young children are upstairs, or building some kind of sturdy barricade across the lower part of the screen if windows must be opened. Parents need to be aware that this kind of thing can happen.