Child Falls 2 Stories, Escapes Serious Injury

The mother of a 2-year-old boy who fell from a second-story window Friday is calling it a miracle that the child walked away with only a cut on his leg.

At about 6 p.m., Adan Gallardo pushed through a screen at his parents’ apartment at 651 W. Channel Islands Blvd. in Oxnard and fell to the concrete below.

The only thing that prevented him from suffering serious injury, said his mother, Virginia Rivera, 23, was a skateboard he landed on.

Rivera and the child’s father, Francisco Gallardo, 23, had briefly gone downstairs to check on a domestic dispute between two neighbors. “We heard something, and the next thing we know he fell,” Rivera said.

Rivera said her son had climbed on the back of the couch before falling from the window.

Robert Woods, who lives in the apartment facing Rivera’s, was talking to a police officer about an argument between his wife Kassandra and an unidentified neighbor. According to Woods, the officer looked up and said, “Oh my God!”

“I just saw the screen and the baby come out of the window,” Woods said, adding that the child was crying after the fall, but there was no visible blood.

Woods’ step-daughter, Michelle Williams, 11, said Adan came out of the window shoulder first.

The boy was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard and was released after being treated for a minor cut on his leg.

“It is a miracle,” said his mother, holding the 43-pound boy in her arms. “He’s very lucky.”