A four-year-old child was found naked in the streets of Toronto on Friday, just one day after a three-year-old boy died after wandering out into the cold in nothing but a diaper, boots and a T-shirt.
The boy’s mother, 23, is now facing charges, including abandoning a child under 10, according to Toronto police.
Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu says Toronto Police received a call on Friday at approximately 1:30 pm., from a neighbour who had found a child wandering without any clothes in the Lake Shore Boulevard and Twelfth Street area of south Etobicoke.
It was approximately -14 C and felt like -23 with the wind chill on Friday afternoon, according to Environment Canada.
The boy was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital by police to be checked out, but an ambulance was not required, according to Sidhu.
No one answered the door at the child’s house but his mother quickly returned to the residence where she was questioned and arrested.
Children’s Aid Society of Toronto will be notified, according to Sidhu.
The news of a naked boy found on the streets comes one day after another under-dressed child died after wandering into the cold streets of North York on Thursday.
Elijah Marsh, 3, was found curled up behind an air-conditioner unit without vital signs on Thursday at around 10:15 a.m., only 300 metres from his grandmother’s apartment. He was seen on an apartment security camera around 4 a.m. leaving the building in -17 C weather that felt like -28 with the wind chill.
More than $100,000 has since been raised for Marsh’s funeral through an online fundraiser.
With a report from CTV Toronto’s Janice Golding
