A Cincinnati police report identifies the boy’s mother as Michelle Gregg, 32, who works at preschool near Cincinnati.
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Zoo expert Jack Hanna says he has no doubt that little boy wouldn’t be with us today if zookeepers hadn’t killed the gorilla.
The boy’s breach of a gorilla exhibit at the zoo, leading authorities to fatally shoot the gorilla to protect the child, has focused attention on zoo enclosures and security.
While zoo officials were right to kill Harambe to protect the toddler, the Bible is clear that animals have value, says Karen Swallow Prior, an English professor at Liberty University, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.
My son fell in the zoo exhibit at the gorilla, at the Cincinnati Zoo.
The killing of the 17-year-old ape drew widespread outrage online, directed in part at the zoo over the gap in its fencing as well as its decision to use live rounds instead of a tranquilizer dart.
A Northwest Ohio woman is speaking out after she became the target of online abuse linked to the death of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo.
In wake of the recent incident, where a gorilla was shot dead by zoo authorities for saving a young child, there is a question in everyone’s mind about how risky gorillas really are. The boy suffered minor injuries and is home with his family.
A spokeswoman said the family requests privacy and has no comment on the investigation. She said OH law requires that the defendant be found “reckless” and to have exposed a child to “substantial risk”, or a strong possibility of harm. A video of the incident appears to show Harambe dragging the child around the enclosure. I tried to see exactly what was happening – it looks as though the gorilla was putting an arm around the child – like the female who rescued and returned the child to the Chicago exhibit.
The boy’s family has expressed gratitude to the zoo for protecting his life.
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Cincinnati Zoo has been heavily criticised across the globe after a four-year-old boy fell into one of its enclosures.
