2-year-old boy rescued from roof of Ansonia house, 2 arrested

ANSONIA - A 2-year-old boy was rescued on the roof of a Main Street house about 30 feet from the ground on Wednesday morning.

At 8:27 a.m., police received a complaint of a child on the roof of a house at 681 Main St.

Within minutes, police located the boy on the roof.

“Officer Christopher Kelley was able to talk to the child and keep him from moving around the roof while Sergeant Christopher Flynn and Officer Peter Lovermi III forced entry into the house to get to the child off the roof,” Lt Patrick Lynch said.

“Inside the home was the child’s father, David Hustek, and the child’s aunt, Sarah Barker. Both had been sleeping and unaware the child was on the roof of the house,” Lynch said.

The child was transported to a local hospital for precautionary reasons, but did not appear to be injured.

“The home was found to be in deplorable living conditions, city building officials were contacted and the home was condemned,” Lynch said.

Hustek and Barker were both arrested.

Both Hustek, 23, and Barker, 20, were was charged with risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment in the first degree.

They are being held on $10,000 bond and will be arraigned at Derby Superior Court on Thursday.

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