What to Know
- The father of a baby boy found crawling across a busy New Jersey street last week has been charged with child neglect, police say
- the father surrendered to Lakewood police Friday afternoon and was charged with cruelty/neglect of a child, a fourth-degree crime
- The man who saw him says he thought he was a toy at first, then he saw him move -- and got out of his own vehicle to stop traffic
Police say the father of a baby boy found crawling across a busy New Jersey street last week has been charged with child neglect.
NJ.com reports that the father surrendered to Lakewood police Friday afternoon and was charged with cruelty/neglect of a child, a fourth-degree crime.
Motorist Corey Cannon was driving along Joe Parker Road around 1:15 p.m. Sept. 22 when he spotted the infant crawling in the middle of the street.
A photo of the baby in the street gained widespread attention.
Authorities say after Cannon stopped to help the child, a neighbor arrived and brought the 10-month-old boy back home.
Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith says the baby crawled through an open front door and made it about 140 feet into the roadway.
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