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Baby was visiting. Placed in portable crib which blocked door.

Why would they push the crib up against the front door where a drug deal had occurred earlier?

Why would they push the crib up against the front door where a drug deal had occurred earlier?

I don't know why they did that, but I have done the exact same thing many years ago when my children were babies.

If you are visiting friends or family, space may be limited, especially if the house is small. You set the playpen up right before bed wherever there is space. Since no one is coming or going until morning, the entry space is convenient.

This family was visiting. they had four children with them. Space may very well have been at a premium.

“He is in a medically induced coma and he is paralyzed. I hope he’s not going to remember this. I know his sisters, his mommy and his daddy will never forget this,” the boy's mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, said. “Our kids have been through enough this year. This is just more trauma that they didn’t need, and I just wish there was something better I could do to make it better for him. Wrong place, wrong time. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

The family's home in Wisconsin recently burned down, prompting their trip to Atlanta to visit family.

“There’s nothing we can do to change the situation, my husband and I would gladly both give up our lives just to see him not like this. He’s such a happy little boy, and to see him like this laying there, not moving, it’s heartbreaking. We just want to hold him and we can’t,” Phonesavanh said.