Overview
- The child, identified as Brenno Fernandes Girdziauckas, is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum and fell from his apartment in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state.
- He is stable in the intensive care unit at the Hospital de Clínicas with bilateral femur fractures.
- During the fall he struck an eighth-floor window and an entrance railing, which specialists say do not fully account for his survival.
- Police recorded the incident as an accidental fall and ordered forensic and medical examinations, with the mother reporting he may have climbed a sink to reach an unprotected window.
- A rapid ambulance response and transfer to a hospital two minutes away were cited by doctors as factors that likely improved his chances.