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Child in stable condition after rescue from washing machine
Monday May 26, 2003
POMONA, California (AP) A 2-year-old girl was in stable but guarded condition after being pulled from a locked, running washing machine, and the girl's mother remained in jail after allegedly placing her there, police said.
``The infant's going to make it,'' police Sgt. A.C. Cox said Sunday.
Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, was arrested for investigation of child endangerment and was being held on $100,000 bail.
Officers were called to Lucy's Laundromat at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday after frantic efforts by the girl's mother and bystanders to unlock the door failed.
Police had to smash the front window of the washer with a baton to rescue the girl, who was submerged in water.
``I pulled my baton, and I did like a baseball swing and broke the glass,'' police Officer Willie Morataya told KABC-TV.
The girl was taken to a hospital where she was initially listed in serious condition with cuts, scrapes, bruises. She had inhaled some water, Sgt. Matt Stone said.
Surveillance camera footage showed that the woman placed her daughter in one washer, then removed her and placed her in a second front-loading washer, which turned on when she closed the door, Stone said.
``I don't believe what the camera says,'' the girl's grandmother, Mary Osborne, told KCBS-TV
Friends and neighbors expressed shock and disbelief.
``She wouldn't do anything like that. That's not Erma,'' neighbor John Herring told the TV station. ``She's a nice, loving mother who takes care of her kids.''
Ok BKM , how do you respond , still shoot em both , seems like there was no prior indication of such behaviour. No sign of info on father yet tho.
Here's a link to what the kid looks like , pre-wash of course:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/25/washing.rescue.ap/