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A 2-year-old child fell out of a second-story window in a building on Oxford Street on Monday, Portland police say.

Lt. Robert Martin, who is the police department spokesman, said the child suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, but did have to be taken by ambulance to Maine Medical Center. He did not know if the child was a boy or a girl.

Portland police are treating the matter as an accident, although the department’s Crime Scene Unit did respond.

“It appears that a screen let go when the child pressed against it,” Martin said in a email.

Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland...

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