The parents of the 1-year-old girl thrown three floors down a trash chute \u2014 allegedly by her own uncle \u2014 in their Staten Island apartment building scrambled to rescue her as they heard her cries, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old man allegedly dropped the tot down the chute inside the family\u2019s building on Steuben Street near Weser Avenue in Park Hill around 3:15 p.m. Monday, while her father was in the bathroom, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n
When the girl\u2019s dad left the restroom, he asked where his daughter was \u2013 and his brother replied that he\u2019d dropped her down the chute, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The parents of the 1-year-old Staten Island girl thrown down a trash chute scrambled to her rescue, sources said. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
Both of the girl\u2019s parents rushed down to the first floor, where they heard their baby daughter crying in the chute, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
The panicked mom and dad broke the door open and pulled their daughter from the chute nearly unscathed, the sources said.<\/p>\n
She was taken to Richmond University Medical Center with scratches on her head, face and body, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
Luckily, the tot was hospitalized with only scratches. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
The uncle, described by relatives as autistic, was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation, sources said. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the uncle \u2013 who the family described as autistic \u2013 was hospitalized for a psychological evaluation, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s father said he\u2019d never seen his brother act that way before, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
The Staten Island DA\u2019s Office was still gathering information on the case Tuesday to determine whether they will press charges, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of the 1-year-old girl thrown three floors down a trash chute \u2014 allegedly by her own…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,23494,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,17049,57234,9294,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-84425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-babies","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-police-investigations","19":"tag-rescues","20":"tag-staten-island","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114899473092802792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}