A Hong Kong couple has been arrested after their one-year-old son fell to his death from their apartment in Tsuen Wan.
Tsuen Wan Adventist Hospital. Photo: Adventist Hospital.
Police told HKFP that they received a call at around 10.37am on Sunday that a boy had been found lying on a podium at Hanley Villa, a residential complex in Tsuen Wan.
He allegedly fell from the fifth floor. The boy did not appear conscious, say local media reported
His father took a taxi with the boy to Adventist Hospital in Tsuen Wan, where the toddler was pronounced dead.
According to police, the boy was with his seven-year-old brother and their mother in the living room, while their father was in the bedroom.
Hong Kong Police Force Headquarters in Wan Chai. Photo: Candice Chau/HKFP.
The boy fell from the unbarred living room window.
Police said his parents were arrested on suspicion of child neglect and detained for investigation.
Adventist Hospital in Tsuen Wan said the boy showed no signs of life when he arrived, Sing Tao reported. The newspaper reported that the boy would turn two next week.
Child neglect is punishable by up to 10 years in prison under Hong Kong law.
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Hillary Leung is a journalist at the Hong Kong Free Press, where she reports on local political and social issues and assists in editing. Since joining in late 2021, she has covered the Covid-19 pandemic, political court cases including the national security trial of 47 Democrats, and challenges facing minority communities.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Hillary completed her undergraduate degree in journalism and sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She worked at TIME Magazine in 2019, where she wrote about Asia and US overnight news before turning her focus to the protests that began that summer. At Coconuts Hong Kong, she covered general news and wrote articles, including a Black Lives Matter march that drew controversy between the local pro-democracy movement and two sisters who were born to a domestic worker and lived undocumented for 30 years in Hong Kong.
