Toddler Found Wandering Alone On Route 9 In Berkeley Township
Toddler Found Wandering Alone On Route 9 In Berkeley Township.
A parent or grandparent’s worst nightmare is a missing child. Unfortunately, these things happen when you turn your back for just one second.
It’s happened to plenty of parents before, your phone rings, you run to answer it and all of a sudden, your child takes off out the door while you’re taking a phone call.
The phone call lasts all of 60 seconds, and then it hits you, your child is missing. You look under the bed, in the closets, under the furniture and boom, your kid is nowhere to be found.
You run out the front door, check the yard, look in the bushes, and ask all of your neighbors if they’ve seen junior, and then real panic sets in. Your child is missing.
That happened to a grandmother in Berkeley Township on Tuesday, April 30th. It turns out that the woman’s grandchild wandered out of the house via the backdoor while the grandmother was occupied with something else.
I don’t know the details of what she was doing while her toddler grandchild took off out the backdoor, but no one should berate her or take her to task. Like I said earlier, she probably had her back turned for a minute.
Thank goodness the toddler wasn’t harmed.
Where Did The Toddler Go?
According to the Patch, A toddler who was rescued from the middle of Route 9 on Tuesday had walked two blocks after getting out of her home, Berkeley Township police said.
Berkeley police were called about 10 a.m. about a child walking across Route 9 dressed only in a pull-on diaper, Capt. Peter LaRocca said. When they arrived found the child with good Samaritans in the parking lot of Diesel’s Subs, he said.
A witness who saw the rescue said traffic stopped in both directions on the road near Morris Boulevard while a woman picked up the child and carried her out of harm’s way.
The child’s grandmother, who had been actively looking for the toddler, arrived on the scene as police were speaking with the good Samaritans, LaRocca said.
The officers then escorted the grandmother and child back to the home, where their investigation found the child had gotten out the door while the door alarm was deactivated, LaRocca said.
