Toddler Critically Burned by SWAT

A toddler is in a medically induced coma after a SWAT team raided the familys home and threw a flashbang grenade into his crib, the boys mother said. With a 50 percent chance of survival, it could be weeks before its known if he will even live.

Bounkham Bou Bou Phonesavanhs, a 19-month-old, was asleep in his portable crib in the same room as his parents and three older sisters, when police opened the door to the converted garage and threw the stun grenade in. It landed in the crib with Bou Bou.

Everyone's sleeping. There's a loud bang and a bright light, the boys mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, told WSB-TV. The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first, and it landed right in the playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face.

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The police department said they had no idea there were any children in the house. There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home. If there had been then we'd have done something different, Cornelia Police Chief Rick Darby said to WSB-TV.

You're trying to minimize anything that could go wrong and in this case the greatest thing went wrong, Darby said. Is it going to make us be more careful in the next one? Yes ma'am, it is. It's gonna make us double question.

Terrell told the AJC that a medic began performing first aid on Bou Bou before the child was transported to the hospital, but he was unable to be transported by helicopter due to unsafe weather conditions.

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