Child Safety

The mother of the boy also talked about the incident for the first time on Wednesday, calling her son “a fighter.” NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

New video footage from a police body camera shows the moments after police find the 4-year-old boy who plunged to the ground from a sixth-floor window of a Bronx apartment building.

The 4-year-old boy who plunged to the ground from a sixth-floor window of a Bronx apartment building a day ago suffered two fractured legs and kidney damage but is expected to survive, cops say, thanks to a patch of grass that helped lessen the blow. The child, who has not been identified, remained hospitalized Wednesday after being taken there around…

There are many questions regarding how the boy fell out of the window, even though NYCHA said that window guards were installed throughout the apartment. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

Black children are now three times more likely to die of suspected child abuse or neglect than white children, according to the report.