Toddler dies after fall from Bronx apartment: NYPD

THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A Bronx family is pleading with parents and landlords to prioritize window safety after their 2-year-old daughter died in a fall from a fifth-floor apartment window this week.

The tragedy happened Tuesday evening at an apartment building on East 138th Street in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. Police said the child, identified by her family as Julia, fell from a bedroom window.

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Speaking through tears on the steps of their building, Julia's mother, Thessa Wilcox, described the moments before the fall.

"I went to the other room for not even that long because I have a monitor," Wilcox said. "I went to the room and then I saw on the monitor that she was gone. She was out the window."

The NYPD does not suspect any criminality at this time.

Julia's parents say not all of the windows in their fifth-floor apartment were equipped with window guards. The fatal fall occurred in a bedroom where an air conditioning unit had been installed.

Wilcox said she had requested window guards.

"I've been calling and 311-ing over and over and I never got any calls back," she sa...