Cruise Ship Toddler Granddad Salvatore Anello Charged with Negligent Manslaughter

The grandfather of a toddler who fell to her demise from the eleventh ground of a cruise ship has been charged with negligent murder.

A decide in Puerto Rico ordered the arrest of Salvatore Anello on Monday, three months after Chloe Wiegand was killed when she fell 150ft from a window on the Royal Caribbean’s Freedom Of The Seas.

Police had claimed on the time he was holding the 18-month-old little one close to the window when he by chance dropped her; nevertheless the household blame the cruise ship for having a completely open window in a kids’s play space.

Anello was being held on $80,000 however has since been launched; he’s due in court docket on November 20.

The household declare Chloe’s granddad had lifted her as much as bang on the glass as she appreciated to do at her brother’s hockey video games — however the glass was not there.

In an interview with ABC news, their lawyer Michael Winkleman stated the fees in opposition to Anello was “pouring salt on the open wounds of this grieving household.”

“Clearly, this was a tragic accident and the household’s singular objective stays for one thing like this to by no means occur once more,” he stated. “Had the cruise strains merely adopted correct security pointers for home windows, this accident possible would by no means have occurred.”

“Why are you going to cost him with a misdemeanor when you already know he is already been by such a horrible trauma? Everyone on earth agrees this was an accident, all people is aware of there was no intent concerned.”

He added: “Actually for them, that is actually about Chloe. It is not about the rest apart from Chloe — it is all about elevating consciousness so {that a} tragedy like this does not occur once more.”

Royal Caribbean stated on Monday: “This was a tragic incident, and out of respect for the household’s privateness, we refer you to authorities for additional remark.”

After the tragic incident on July 7, Winkleman questioned why one panel of glass was lacking in a wall filled with them.

“Basically her grandfather lifts her up and places her on a railing and the place he thinks that there’s glass there as a result of it is clear, however it turns on the market was no glass there,” he stated on the time. “She goes to bang on the glass like she would have at a kind of hockey rinks, and the subsequent factor you already know, she’s gone.”

“Why on the planet would you allow a window open in a whole glass wall filled with home windows in a child’s space?”

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