May 2, 2021
Last April, Kate Needham s one-year-old son Robbie pushed through a screen and plunged from a second story window in the family s rental home near Naval Base San Diego.
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Robbie landed head first on the ground, suffering a life-threatening head injury that required a $30,000 hospital stay. On a warm day, Needham and her Navy-enlisted husband had cracked open a window in the home that they, as do thousands of American military families, rent from a privatized U.S. military housing operator. With one light press on the screen, she said, the toddler fell through.
Soon after, Needham said, employees of military housing landlord Lincoln Military Housing visited to take photos and asked her to reenact the circumstances of the fall. During a phone call Lincoln employees recorded with her, Needham said, she felt pressure to take the blame for Robbie s injury, and she promised not to sue the company.
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(Reuters) - Last April, Kate Needham’s one-year-old son Robbie pushed through a screen and plunged from a second story window in the family’s rental home near Naval Base San Diego.
Kate Needham poses for a picture with her 2-year-old son Robbie, Navy-enlisted husband, and 6-year-old daughter Izzy; looking up from where Robbie pushed through a window screen and plunged from the family s rental home in San Diego, California, U.S., April 26, 2021. Picture taken April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Robbie landed head first on the ground, suffering a life-threatening head injury that required a $30,000 hospital stay. On a warm day, Needham and her Navy-enlisted husband had cracked open a window in the home that they, as do thousands of American military families, rent from a privatized U.S. military housing operator. With one light press on the screen, she said, the toddler fell through.
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