A 6-year-old special needs boy, the son of rapper Flo Rida, fell from his family’s fifth-floor apartment in Jersey City, NJ, according to a lawsuit filed against the building by his mother, Alexis Adams.
The denounced fact keeps the child Zohar Paxton in intensive care and it happened three weeks ago, on March 4, according to the mother, but it was only made public yesterday when she filed the lawsuit, reported News 12.
The child’s injuries include multiple pelvic fractures, left metatarsal fractures, grade three liver laceration, internal bleeding, and collapsed lung. The boy’s father is rapper Tramar Lacel Dillard, also known as Flo Rida, according to legal documents. It is not clear if he was on the scene at the time of the fall.
Adams claims in her lawsuit that the building was equipped with “windows that posed a dangerous condition” that allowed her son to fall onto the concrete pavement. “As a single parent of a special needs child, this feels like a nightmare. My heart is broken into a million pieces,” she wrote in a written statement.
“I am devastated, angry and struggling to come to terms with the fact that my only child has been seriously injured due to the willful negligence of our landlord and others involved in failing to take necessary safety measures.” Flo Rida has yet to make any official comments.
Adams is seeking compensation for damages, attorneys’ fees and payment of her son’s medical bills, according to New York Post.
To prevent accidents like these, authorities remind adults:
-Carefully check window guards periodically. Lids or screens are not safe substitutes.
-Never place a bed, chair or other object on which children can climb in front of a window.
-Keep minors away from balconies and terraces if they are not being closely supervised by an adult, closing the doors of those areas.
-Never allow children to play near elevator shafts or on fire escapes, balconies, terraces or roofs. Nor are they unsupervised in the hallways of buildings that have unattended windows.
-Call 311 to report unattended hallway windows.