A 5-year-old Toronto girl is expected to make a full recovery after she was reportedly tossed by her father at least 50 feet onto Canada’s busiest highway, police said Monday.
The girl’s father was killed when he jumped from the overpass onto Highway 401 in north Toronto. Witnesses told local media they saw the man throw the girl before jumping.
“She’s going to be all right, that’s what the doctors are saying,” said a Toronto police spokeswoman. The girl suffered internal injuries but no broken bones.
The incident happened early Sunday evening after police said the child’s mother found a suicide note at her nearby apartment.
The man, in his 30s, called the child’s mother from a cell phone while on the bridge, where witnesses said the screaming girl, dressed in a pink snowsuit, clutched the man’s leg.
“This guy was a loaded missile,” police Duty Inspector Brian O’Connor told reporters. “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.”
Neither the man nor the child was hit by vehicles on the busy highway, which carries hundreds of thousands of cars daily across the top of the city.
