There are some things, in the midst of a crisis, that one could be expected to forget. Your high school locker combination, where you left your keys, whose turn it is to do the dishes. Your four year old son isn’t one of them.
The 4-year-old boy was treated for smoke inhalation after a firefighter ran inside and pulled him out, township Fire Chief Bill Brucker said.
Police said the firefighters learned that the boy was still inside the burning mobile home about 20 minutes after Chandler and Adams had already gotten out, when the two allegedly told firefighters that they had forgotten the child.
They didn’t forget their pets, though. Evidently, they had more invested in the animals than the child.
Crystal Adams, 31, and James Chandler, 33, are accused of reckless endangerment, because police say the two grabbed their pet dogs and fled the fire at Center Manor Court but left Chandler’s young son behind on Friday night.
According to the local Fire Chief, the couple was asked several times if there was anyone else in the home. It took 20 minutes for the couple to remember they had a son. Fire Chief Brucker made a good point:
“You tuck your kid in bed, you should remember that he’s still in there,” Brucker said.
As a parent myself, I’m thinking, if you give birth, spend four years providing for the little tyke, and tuck him in bed, you should remember he’s still in there. But I’m sure those dogs were important.
