AVONDALE - He's 13 months old, toddling around his mother's apartment in footed pajamas.

Lavonta Clark's a happy baby, playing with an empty bottle of milk Monday, a day after he survived a drop from a third-story window. Amazingly, a couple of scratches and a bump on the back of his head are his only injuries.

"The doctors said it was a miracle," said the boy's mother, Lawanda Clark. "They told me the angels followed him all the way down."

As police marveled about Lavonta's lack of broken bones, they also said Monday that the baby didn't fall. He was thrown out of the window - by an 11-year-old they say admitted to investigators that he was angry because Lavonta kept crying.

"The baby had woken him up and he was frustrated," said Lt. Paul Broxterman, a spokesman for the Cincinnati Police Department.

If convicted of felonious assault, the most serious possible punishment for an 11-year-old would be a sentence to Hillcrest, a residential treatment facility run by Hamilton County Juvenile Court. He was cited on the charge later Sunday morning and released to his guardian.

Lavonta went out the window of an apartment building on Dorchester Avenue in Mount Auburn a little before 5 a.m. Sunday.

Wearing only a disposable diaper, his mother said, he was scratched by bushes, then landed in soft mud. He was treated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Lavonta and his big sister, 3-year-old Latonia, were staying at the Mount Auburn apartment for a few days because Clark, 23, said she needed time to go to temporary agencies to try to get work. She's behind on rent in her Avondale apartment, she said, and didn't have anyplace else to leave her children.

"I'm kind of down and out right now,'' she said. "I need to get some things together so I can give my landlord some money.''

She'd like to find some type of preschool or day care for Latonia, who can say her ABCs, knows her full name and address and can count to 20.

The woman who was baby-sitting Lavonta and Latonia is her mother's best friend, Clark said, and the 11-year-old is the baby sitter's nephew. Eight children were in the apartment with the baby sitter at the time, police said, and everyone else was asleep.

"They told me Lavonta was crying, but the only time he really cries is if he's wet or if he's hungry,'" Clark said. "The judge and the detectives, they need to get all that figured out about what happened. I need to focus on my son.''

Lavonta goes back to Children's later this week to make sure he's still OK.

"We're talking some 30-odd feet that this boy fell,'' Broxterman said. "Unbelievable.''

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OMG that poor baby


What the hell did the 11 year old kid think the baby would do?? Fly???

An 11 year old should know better and deserves to be punished.

More the deserves a punishment... kid needs a good woopin or some nice time at military school.

The baby was lucky the bushes helped to break his fall.

Military school sounds pretty good to me.