Nov 8, 2009 6:14 pm US/Central
Mother In CTA Stroller Accident Grateful Baby OK
Ebere Ozonwu Declines To Discuss Details, But At Church Service Celebrates Her Child's Escaping Harm
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Ebere Ozonwu holds her daughter, Rachel, who reportedly was caught in a stroller dragged by a CTA car last week.
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Screams and her baby tumbling onto the Red Line tracks. That's what Ebere Ozonwu described to investigators last week, saying her daughter, in her stroller, got caught in the 'L' train doors and was dragged 75 feet before her toddler fell.
The head of the transit union has questioned her story, raising concerns about everything from the lack of damage to the stroller to the lack of injuries to the toddler. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports that Ozonwu is now talking about what happened, but she isn't saying very much.
Is little Rachel a living miracle? Her pastor believes so.
"God delivered this baby from a CTA train accident," said Garden of Life Ministry Pastor David Philemon.
But all the child's mother, Ebere Ozonwu, will say about the stroller-CTA incident, is she's grateful to God.
"It's better to be in a sanctuary in the house of the Lord than to be in the mortuary," Ozonwu told her fellow parishioners.
Ozonwu and 21-month-old daughter Rachel danced, sang and prayed with their North Side congregation almost a week after the incident.
Ozonwu initially told investigators the
toddler was in her stroller when it got wedged in the doors of a CTA Red Line car, turned onto its side and was dragged about 75 feet before Rachel fell onto the tracks.
Sunday, Ozonwu didn't want to discuss details.
"I don't want to go there now because it's too much for me right now. I just thank God," she said. "Maybe that's what happened."
To be sure, the sight of a toddler plunging off the platform would horrify anyone nearby. Just ask Shin Yee Tan. She was there but didn't actually see the stroller being dragged.
"I did not see it happen, but I was there immediately after," Tan said. "I heard screaming, and I just rushed to where it was."
Tan says Ozonwu was holding Rachel, hysterical, and believes it was a terrible accident.
Police say platform guardrail paint was found on the mostly undamaged stroller.
Transit Union President Robert Kelly still finds the story difficult to believe. But, if true, he says it points to a major malfunction.
Ozonwu says she's not angry at the CTA. She just wants to glorify God.
CTA officials are conducting an investigation. In the meantime, the train is out of service and the operator off the job, without pay, until it is complete.
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