BY ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporter

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CTA mother's scare: 'The train took my baby'

Stroller gets stuck in doors of L train at Morse, child falls to track bed
Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:00
BY FRANK MAIN, DAVE NEWBART AND ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporters

Ebere Ozonwu says it’s “miraculous” her 22-month-old daughter survived after her stroller was caught in the door of a CTA train.

A preliminary investigation showed the train’s doors were working properly, said CTA spokeswoman Noelle Gaffney. “We don’t know the cause. We want to do more extensive testing.”

But Robert Kelly, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, said “either the door malfunctioned or someone is lying.”

Kelly said he hopes a police surveillance camera will show what happened.

Ozonwu was rushing to catch a southbound train at about 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Red Line’s Morse Avenue stop in Rogers Park. She ran up the stairs to the platform while she carried a stroller with her daughter in it.

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