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The incident took place around 8:47 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 25, when the Ansonia Police Department received a complaint of a child on the roof of a house on Main Street, said Lt. Patrick Lynch.
Officers located the two-year-old male on the roof about 30 feet above the ground, Lynch said.
Officer Christopher Kelley was able to talk to the child and keep him from moving around the roof while Sgt. Christopher Flynn and Officer Peter Lovermi forced entry into the house to get to the child off the roof, he added.
Inside the home, officers found the child’s father, David Hustek, 23, and aunt, Sarah Barker, 20, sleeping and unaware the child was on the roof of the house, Lynch said
The child was transported to a local hospital for precautionary reasons but did not appear to be injured.
The home was found to be in deplorable living conditions, city building officials were contacted and the home was condemned.
Hustek and Barker were both arrested.
Both were charged with risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment. They are each being held on $10,000 bond.
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