Toddler

When laundry detergent capsules hit store shelves, many praised them for using less water and being more efficient than traditional detergents. However, that convenience has come with a price -- one a Wichita family knows all too well. Ava Lynn is fine now but she became seriously ill after eating one of the capsules. Click to See Photos “I'd never heard of anybody eating them,” Erin Haynes said.  “Or even come remotely close to ingesting them.  Until it happened.” A Wichita mother gets the scary call that her toddler has eaten several detergent pods and is violently ill.  Now, she's trying to warn other parents about the dangers of the highly concentrated soap pods that look like candy to young children.  It's a disturbing trend KWCH first told you about last week, with thousands calling for help across the country.

A one year-old boy has drowned after falling into a home swimming pool in northeast Wichita. The call came in shortly after 11:00 a.m. Tuesday from a home in the 5600 block of Coe Drive, near 13th & Edgemoor. Paramedics tried to revive the toddler at the scene.  He died later at Wesley Medical Center, police said. "It's a bad situation for the family, for the people working this case, for the neighborhood," said WPD Capt. Brent Allred. Allred said investigators were still interviewing the seven people who were home at the time.  He said it appears all were asleep when the one year-old somehow got outside and fell into the backyard pool.  It's unclear how long he was in the water.

Nini, Flippers and Go-Go juice are part of a vocabulary you'll hear while watching the drama on TLC's "Toddlers & Tiaras. "  Local pageant moms, Chelsi Koehn and Hillary Sewell, say those are words they don't use.  They enter pageants because their children want to be there. "She just wants to do it.  I don't really want to tell her no if she wants to do it," says Sewell. The two moms may go to pageants for fun, but Sewell says they're also there for the crown, "I mean every one wants their kid to win, what parent doesn't?"

A 16-month-old toddler was burned in a house fire in South Wichita. It happened on the 4700 block of South Main around 4:00AM. A fire investigator says the fire was contained to a hallway and a little bit of the attic. A man was critically hurt in the fire. The man and the 16-month-old were taken to a hospital. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A 16-month-old toddler and man were critically injured in a house fire in South Wichita. It happened on the 4700 block of South Main around 4:00AM. Authorities say the 29 year old man was injured while trying to save the child.  "He had to pretty much go through some fire and some other materials," says Lt. Joe Evans of the Wichita Fire Department.  "He was able to get the baby out. A 27 year old woman and 7 year old girl were able to get our safely. A fire investigator says the blaze was started by a faulty box fan.  The fire was contained to a hallway and part of the attic.

A missing Ark City toddler has been found.  Investigators say he was abducted by his own father. Three-year-old Anthony Hernandez was found around 5:00 this evening at the Cowley County State Fishing Lake just east of Ark City.  He is doing fine tonight. Police say the boy was abducted by his father, Francisco Lopez-Campos, during a supervised visit. The Amber Alert was issued late last night after police say Lopez got into a fight with his son's mother, even using a weapon, before taking off with the boy. The hunt for Lopez and his son concentrated around that lake for most of the day and involved officers from nearly a dozen different law enforcement agencies.

Prosecutors say she was covered in bruises, and lost six teeth before going to the hospital. Tuesday a judge rules a couple will go to trial in the death of an El Dorado toddler. Alyssa Haag and Justin Edwards were in court for a preliminary hearing. They're charged with murder in the death of Haag's 18-month-old daughter Jayla. “Sometimes it sounded like things were hitting the wall. So I don't know if that would have been Jayla.  Sometimes I would wake up and hear her crying and then she would just go silent and then I'd hear her gasping for air like she was being choked,” said roommate Jennifer Quarter.

A two year old boy wandering through a pasture in rural Labette County dies after being hit by a pickup truck. It happened around 7:00pm Saturday night a half mile South of Oswego. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a 30 year old woman was driving the truck through the pasture at the same time.  She was unable to see the boy, and ran over him. The two year old was rushed to the Freeman Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The man accused of killing an 18-month-old Salina girl makes his first appearance in court.  25-year-old Troy Love II is accused of abusing Bre'elle Jefferson earlier this month. According to our news partners at the Salina Journal, Love is charged with first degree murder and two counts of child abuse.  If convicted, he could face a minimum of 20 years in prison. Love turned himself into authorities Monday April 23rd.  Police say on April 9th, officers and medic units responded to 602 Gypsum in reference to a child who was not breathing.  She was treated at Salina Regional Health Center and transferred to a Wichita hospital, where she died on April 10, 2012.  Authorities say Bre'elle died as a result of injuries consistent with child abuse.

Police in Salina are investigating the death of an 18-month-old girl. According to officials who spoke with Eyewitness News the girl was found unresponsive at her home in the 600 block of Gypsum Avenue on Monday. Police say a call to 911 was made just after 3:40 in the afternoon.  The girl died Tuesday night at Wesley Medical Center. Police say Bre'Elle Jefferson had injuries, but investigators are not saying if they contributed to her death.