Seanland

Someone told me about it recently, just curious what people know about it? I heard the child was in critical, anyone know anything about it?

Charlatan

It happened on a bridge spanning one of the busy highways in North America. He tossed her over first and then himself. He died and she survived... barely.

It was big news in Toronto.

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Toronto man throws daughter onto busy highway
CTV.ca News Staff

A Toronto child is in guarded condition after she was thrown off a bridge onto the country's busiest highway by her father who then jumped to his death.

"The fact that the little girl wasn't hit by a car is a miracle," Insp. Brian O'Connor of the Toronto Police Services said at a news conference.

"It does not appear that she has any broken bones. She was talkative at the hospital."

O'Connor said the girl had some internal bleeding, but that has stopped.

The incident happened around 6 p.m. ET Sunday at the Don Mills Road Bridge over the 401 Highway, which has six express lanes.

Police had been looking for the man after he left a suicide note and a number of frantic messages for his wife Sunday afternoon.

O'Connor said police found the man when a driver phoned to say there was a man dangling his daughter over a bridge spanning the 401.

"He continued to call his wife while he had the daughter and basically, what amounts to psychological torture, he continued to call the wife and say, 'I'm going to kill myself; I'm going to kill your daughter,'" O'Connor said.

Police and a few bystanders watched in horror as the man threw his girl off the bridge but were unable to stop it.

"This guy went to do what he went to do and nobody in my opinion would have been able to stop him," O'Connor said.

"This guy was a loaded missile. He was going to kill himself and he was going to take his daughter to punish his wife for whatever he thought she had done wrong in the relationship. What he succeeded in doing is harming his wife, harming his daughter, harming a lot of police officers who have children.''

CTV News Toronto's Graham Richardson reported the police tried reaching the man on the cellphone earlier, but he kept hanging up.

According to witnesses, the little girl, who wore a pink snowsuit, clung to the man's leg as he yelled into his phone.

Witness Susan Bains told CTV News Toronto at the scene: "I did actually make a comment to my friend, saying, 'that's very strange; why is that man holding that child?' And then, almost in a joking way, I said, 'it looks like he might even throw that child over there.'"

And then he did. And then he jumped.

Other witnesses report the police showed up just as the man jumped.

Bains said she couldn't "think something so tragic could actually happen, that someone would throw their child over a railing like this onto a busy highway.

"I'm in shock. I can't even put this together in my mind right now ..."

Richardson noted that many people saw what was unfolding, "but they didn't really stop and stop him because they couldn't really believe what might be happening."

With a report from CTV's Graham Richardson and files from The Canadian Press

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Charlatan

The update as of yesterday....

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Girl dropped from bridge out of hospital
24 March, 2005 by ashok

A 5-year-old Toronto girl dropped 50 feet onto a highway by her suicidal father two weeks ago has been released from the hospital.

A 5-year-old Toronto girl dropped 50 feet onto a highway by her suicidal father two weeks ago has been released from the hospital.
Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children said Inara Amarsi had recovered from soft-tissue chest and abdominal injuries, and had no broken bones. However, the kindergartener is still recovering from a neck injury and must wear a neck brace for two more weeks, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.
On March 6, her father, Alnoor Amarsi, picked the girl up for a scheduled visit, as he and his wife were in the midst of a hostile divorce and custody battle. He left a suicide note at his wife's home and had another in his pocket.
He parked near a bridge over a busy 8-lane highway as police began arriving. After several minutes of talks with negotiators, Amarsi suddenly flung his daughter over the railing and jumped after her. He died instantly.
In addition to physiotherapy, the girl is also undergoing counseling, the newspaper said.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International

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Seanland

Glad to see the daughter survived.. really couldnt care less about the father... that dumb fuck.

lindseylatch

Wow...Just...Wow. That's insane...Thank God the girl is getting counseling, poor baby.
I just don't understand parents who do that kind of thing...

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superiorrain

Amazing that she survived and is already out of hospital. Thats going to be alot of therapy she'll be needing.

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qtpye4u84

Yea, that is crazy and sad at the same time.

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Janey

Angels must watch over children Sometimes. Apparantly she doesn't recall any of the experience.

Kazic

And good for her then. No reason she should remember such an incident at the hands of her own father. Parents are here to protect their children not use them to hurt others.

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