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City police rescue boy, 2, from 2nd floor porch roof

By Jim Smith

Butler Eagle Staff Writer

Butler police rescued a 2-year-old boy after he crawled out of a second-floor window and ended up on a porch roof.

A call at 1:09 p.m. Monday for a “small child” throwing items out of an upstairs window sent officers to the home on Standard Avenue, authorities said.

When Patrolmen Brian Grooms and Mark Howard got there, they looked up and saw the boy standing outside a bedroom window on the roof of the porch, which is about 20 feet above the sidewalk, police said.

The officers went inside the unlocked house and up the stairs. They announced themselves but got no answer.

They found the bedroom where the child was out the window. They also found the boy's uncle, Harrison W. Daniels, 26, sleeping on the bed, according to court documents.

“I attempted to wake Harrison, and he would not wake up,” Grooms said in an affidavit.

Grooms got to the open window and pulled the boy back inside, documents said.

Daniels, who lives at the house, eventually woke up. He told police that he had been watching his nephew but thought the boy's mother, who also lives there, had returned before he fell asleep, police said.

A short time later, the boy's mother showed up. She told police that she had left the home about 20 minutes earlier.

“Before leaving she woke Harrison up and told him that he had to watch the child,” documents said.

Officers noted that while they spoke to Daniels, they noticed a suspected marijuana pipe and grinder on the floor next to his bed.

Police on Tuesday charged him with child endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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