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Subject: 911 Botch-up in Detroit
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Date: 4 Nov 90 04:51:08 GMT
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An Associated Press report mentioned an incident in Detroit where a
girl (age 7) phoned 911 to report that her brother was being beaten.
She was told by a 911 operator to "get off the phone" and her call was
basically ignored. The operator's insistence that the girl hang up
interfered with the girl's pleadings for assistance.

The mother phoned for an ambulance a short time later, but the boy was
dead by the time an ambulance arrived.

The 911 operator who took the call was supposedly "disciplined"
according to a Wayne County prosecutor.