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Posted: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 1:25PM
'The Train Took My Baby!'
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Mike Krauser & Steve Miller Reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM) -- WBBM's Steve Miller spoke with a woman who held the toddler after the child had been pulled from the CTA tracks.
It was about 6 p.m. and Rebecca Weinberg and her husband Joel had just gotten off the el at Morse. And then heard a scream.
"It was a very agitated scream," Weinberg says a woman was saying either, "The train hit my baby," or "The train took my baby."
"A few moments later, a gentleman towards the south end of the platform yelled, 'Are you looking for a baby? There's a baby on the ground here.'
"So my husband and the woman - the mother - ran to the end of the platform and found the child laying on the ground to the side of the tracks. The woman jumped down onto the tracks, grabbed her child, handed the baby up to my husband Joel."
Weinberg says the child was eventually handed to her.
She says the mother was gathering up the child's belongings from the track, and Weinberg says her husband helped the woman get back to the platform.
The Chicago Transit Authority is investigating how a train operator pulled out of a North Side "L" station last night with a toddler in a stroller wedged in the open doors.
Trains aren't supposed to be moving with an open door.
But all the CTA will say this morning is that the incident is under investigation.
As witnesses tell it, a 26-year-old mother was pushing her 22-month-old daughter in a stroller on the Morse "L" elevated CTA train platform, rushing to catch the train.
But the doors closed on the stroller and the train started moving.
The stroller tipped sideways and the girl's head was reportedly bouncing off the platform.
There's a barrier at the end of the platform, police say, and that dislodged the stroller and threw the toddler to the track bed.
She did not touch the third rail.
She was taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in stable condition with a possible concussion.
It's not clear exactly when the train operator was made aware of what happened.
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