Grandfather of Toddler Who Fell Out of Cruise Ship Window Last Summer Changes His Plea to Guilty
RELATED: Family of Toddler Who Died After Falling from Cruise Ship Allege ‘Negligence’ Led to Accident
Anello said that he was holding Chloe against a railing next to what he thought was a bank of closed windows in a children’s play area of the Royal Caribbean ship. But she slipped from his grasp, falling through an open window onto a dock 10 stories below. “I remember trying to find her on the floor and then I saw her fall, I saw her fall, I saw her fall and,” Anello told CBS. “And I was like ‘Oh my God.’ And I think for a while I was in shock and I was just standing there.”
Anello said that he relives that moment “all the time,” explaining that he thought there was glass to stop his granddaughter’s fall.“And then I just remember screaming that ‘I thought there was glass, I thought there was glass.’ I still say it to myself, it’s just, I kind of relive it all the time and I just thought there was glass there. I don’t know what else to tell you.”
Winkleman told PEOPLE after Anello was charged in October, “It’s like pouring salt in [the family’s] open wounds. They’re in the beginning stages of a lengthy process that is grief. They were trying to put their lives back together, and you throw this into the mix and it puts them back to square one.
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