European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse \ thu Day August 18, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 11 dad held after Tot tossed from Balcony into swimming Pool Long Beach Calif. A the father of a 2-year-old boy told police that he was just try ing to teach his son How to swim when he tossed him from a second Story Balcony into the deep end of a swimming Pool. The boy s adult Cousin Tony Wofford saw what happened monday and dived into the boy was shaken but otherwise Fine. Michael Dwayne Willis st., 20, was arrested for investigation of child endangerment and was being held on $50,000 bail police Cpl. Josef Levy said. I m teaching my baby How to swim he told police. The boy s Mother Phylise Simpson said the baby had been getting used to water. For the past few weeks we be been taking him into the Pool and he s been learning to hold his breath she said. Thank god. But even though he s used to the water he sure does t know How to mystery fumes at Hospital still baffle California officials by the los Angeles times Riverside Calif. Concluding a six month investigation California s occupational safety office monday said it found nothing at a Hospital that could account for the mystery fumes that hospitalized six people and sparked the evacuation of the emergency room in february. Industrial hygienists with the state s department of Industrial relations concluded that some of the 12 emergency room attendants at Riverside general hos Pital who complained of nausea headaches dizziness and other symptoms during the incident May have fallen victim to mass hysteria after the first emergency room workers collapsed. But at least three of the most seriously ill definitely were affected by something a Cal Osha investigator concluded but a source of the toxic fumes could not be identified. Each of the three people who Are believed by Cal Osha to have fallen ill from the mystery agent a doctor a nurse and a respiratory therapist complained of smelling an ammonia like odor in blood drawn from cancer patient Gloria Ramirez. The 31 year old Mother of two was brought to the Hospital with breathing and heart distress and died within minutes of her arrival there. Contributing to the ongoing mystery was a finding by a Cal Osha consulting Laboratory that an unidentified chemical compound derived from ammonia was detected in the bag containing Ramirez s body and in air samples taken during the autopsy. But Cal Osha said it could not determine if the unidentified compound could be related to the feb. 19 incident no evidence was found that the mystery fumes were generated by the Hospital s use or storage of chemicals drugs or cleaning supplies or by the Hospital s ventilation or sewage disposal systems Cal Osha concluded. Tarn Smalstig a state Industrial hygienist reported that in the Case of three emergency room workers the Type severity and duration of the most severe symptoms. Support that this was an involuntary physiologic reaction to some agent and symptoms exhibited by the other affected Hospital personnel May have been the result of unintentional exaggeration by the stress or anxiety of the moment she said. The Riverside county Coroner s office conclude that Ramirez died of cardiac Dys rhythmic and kidney failure brought on by cervical cancer. The county Coroner s spokesman could not breached for comment on the Cal Osha report. Exorcism not billable treatment officials say new York a a state psychiatric Hospital sent a wife killer to a free Lance cleric for spiritual counselling and got hit with a $12,000 Bill for an exorcism. Alphonso Pecou 43, was dunked in a ritual Mineral water Bath and anointed with Olive Oil and the Rev. Alpha o. Bundu and members of his congregation said prayers Over the patient s body to drive out the demons. After members of the Hospital clinical staff Learned what Bundu was doing the state Cut off the treatment and Maile Bundu a Check for $500 a sum based on the usual rate for More conventional counselling by a priest or rabbi we have patients of every persuasion and we try to be culturally sensitive Robert Spoor a spokesman for the stat office of mental health said tuesday. But we indicated that exorcism was nontraditional treatment modality that was not Pecou is a Panama native with what the mental health office describes As an extreme attachment to a Caribbean apparently convinced that his wife was insufficiently devout Pecou in 1982slashed her to death with a Machete and set her on fire in front of his four was found innocent by reason of Insan Ity and committed to Kingsboro psychiatric Center in Brooklyn. 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