A grandmother in New York is accused of reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child after police said that she pushed her two young grandchildren from a bridge into a frigid river.
Police said they were contacted by the children’s mother who wanted to report her own mother for pushing her 5-year-old and 3-year-old from the bridge over the Oswego River in Fulton, New York, WSTM reported.
Police contacted Heather Smith, 46, the children’s maternal grandmother, who said she pushed the children into the water from the bridge but didn’t do it to harm them, WSTM reported.
The water was 35.8 degrees at the time of the alleged incident and both children were fully submerged before Smith pulled them from the water, police said
First responders checked out the children and found no signs of injury. They are in the care of their mother while children protective services is conducting an investigation, The Palladium-Times reported.
Smith was arrested and charged with two counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree, a felony, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, WSYR reported. She was released on her own recognizance.
