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Cops: Man Tosses Toddler Onto Busy Freeway
CBS News ^ | Jan. 18, 2008 | not identified

Posted on 01/18/2008 2:28:45 PM PST by radar101

Police move a suspect believed to have tossed a toddler from the H1 pedestrian overpass off Magellan St. in the lower Punchbowl area of Honolulu Thursday Jan. 17, 2008

The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2½-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man they say occasionally baby-sat the child after witnesses saw him throwing something, followed him and called authorities.

Kraig Hengst told The Honolulu Advertiser he was working in an apartment garage across the street from the overpass when he saw a man "toss the baby" at about 11:40 a.m.

"I saw the baby high in the air. I thought it was a doll at first," Hengst said. The man held the child in one arm and "tossed it into the air," he said.

One or two vehicles may have struck the boy, but it was unclear exactly what killed him, the newspaper reported.

A white sheet covered the body on the westbound lanes of the H-1 freeway, a major route through downtown that police temporarily closed. The scene was just blocks from the Capitol and the governor's mansion.

The man, who was wearing green hospital scrubs, was taken to the police station and then to a hospital, said police spokeswoman Michelle Yu. She didn't know whether he had a history of mental illness or a criminal record.

"That will be part of the investigation," Yu said.

That's just a horrible sight that I seen down there, for any man to do that to a child.

witness: The suspect screamed "Thank you for everything" to television crews as he was escorted to a cell block. While in a police car, he rocked back and forth in the back seat.

The Queen's Medical Center, the nearest facility with a mental health wing, declined to say whether the man was or had been a patient. But spokeswoman Rebecca Pollard said no patients were missing Thursday and none had been discharged in an unstable condition.

Johnnie Bruen told KITV that the man calmly walked away from the overpass after dropping the child. Bruen later chased the man up a hill among houses and low-rise apartment buildings near the freeway.

"He didn't say anything, he didn't scream; he looked like a normal person standing there smoking a cigarette, except that he had on a smock," Bruen said. "That's just a horrible sight that I seen down there, for any man to do that to a child."

There were no reports of a missing child, police Capt. Frank Fujii said. Officers were contacting day care centers and other area facilities to find out where the child came from.

Hedy Chun, director of a nearby preschool, Kamaaina Kids Honolulu, said 10 to 15 parents called to check on their children. All students were safe, she said, but her staff was shocked.

Gov. Linda Lingle, told of the incident shortly after it happened, called it a "real tragedy."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: babymurder; freeway; hawaii; honalulu; toddler
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1 posted on 01/18/2008 2:28:48 PM PST by radar101
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To: radar101; yorkie; TigersEye

Prayers for this poor child.


2 posted on 01/18/2008 2:30:43 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Don't taunt the animal's at the zoo or they may bite YOU!)
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4 posted on 01/18/2008 2:32:31 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: wolfcreek

He should have jumped into a volcano himself.


5 posted on 01/18/2008 2:32:57 PM PST by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: radar101

A girl friend’s child? If no one is reporting a missing child,....well, that’s not good.


6 posted on 01/18/2008 2:35:36 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: radar101
The man held the child in one arm and "tossed it into the air," he said.

Oh that poor baby. Two and a half years old, old enough to know what was going on. Dear G-d.

8 posted on 01/18/2008 2:39:33 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: radar101

What is happening to my America? Another article was about a woman who killed herself and two children by walking into on-coming freeway traffic. And the guy who threw his 4 children off a bridge. End times alert.


9 posted on 01/18/2008 2:39:56 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
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To: Joe 6-pack

Too quick and too kind.


10 posted on 01/18/2008 2:40:20 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: radar101

Death is too good for this maggot


11 posted on 01/18/2008 2:43:56 PM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Firing squad with an Hispano Suiza HS404 20mm cannon.


12 posted on 01/18/2008 2:43:58 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: radar101

....”for any man to do that to a child. “

C’MON MORON! It’s not a male/female thing. It would be just as horrible if ANYONE did this, man or woman.

Gimme a break. It’s a horrible evil act no matter WHO does it.


13 posted on 01/18/2008 2:43:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: radar101

No trial, no jury, no judges. Just cut him into little pieces, alive, toe by toe, finger by finger, ball by ball...until he bleeds to death.


14 posted on 01/18/2008 2:46:15 PM PST by RockinRight (Huck(abee, not the Freeper Huck) Sucks.)
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15 posted on 01/18/2008 2:46:16 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Are you serious? Do you actually believe he meant to exclude women? Seems to me he was simply making a generic comment.


16 posted on 01/18/2008 2:46:48 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: radar101

This man took the child of a neighbor were both lived in an apartment complex. The little boy would have had his 2nd birthday next month. I don’t know the child’s name, FOXNEWS didn’t mention it, just that the boy’s mother is devastated.


17 posted on 01/18/2008 2:55:54 PM PST by SatinDoll (Fredhead and proud of it!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Firing squad with an Hispano Suiza HS404 20mm cannon.
‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
..Takes a split second. How about a BB gun and a bunch of hours?


18 posted on 01/18/2008 2:56:19 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: loungitude

My custom loaded ‘solid Drano’ shot shells?


19 posted on 01/18/2008 3:02:50 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA.)
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To: loungitude
How about a BB gun and a bunch of hours?

That sounds like an Iranian solution,
20 posted on 01/18/2008 3:06:18 PM PST by Beckwith (Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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