Girl Hospitalized After Being Put in Washing Machine
POMONA, California — A 2-year-old girl was in stable but guarded condition after being pulled from a locked, running washing machine, and the girl's mother remained in jail after allegedly placing her there, police said.
"The infant's going to make it," police Sgt. A.C. Cox said Sunday.
Erma Osborne, 35, of Pomona, Calif. (search), was arrested for investigation of child endangerment and was being held on $100,000 bail.
Officers were called to Lucy's Laundromat at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday after frantic efforts by the girl's mother and bystanders to unlock the door failed of the washer with a baton to rescue the girl, who was submerged in water.
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