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A Hispanic man who wanted to have a photo taken inside the habitat of the San Diego Zoo elephants With his little girl in his arms, he was arrested after releasing her and endangering the life of the 2-year-old girl. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon.
Police said seconds after the man had entered a restricted area of the San Diego Zoo , the most famous zoo in the United States, one of the elephants began to charge towards them .
A video taken by a visitor and provided to a local television channel shows the eerie moment in which the man desperately tries to escape through a fence, but in doing so the girl falls .
TO 25 – year-old father carried his 2-year-old daughter into an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo on Friday. The man said he “wanted to take a photo with the African bull elephant.” He was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment pic.twitter.com/2XiVOx20 nN
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The elephant for some reason stopped when the girl was on the ground a few feet away and the man was trying to stay upright. They were dramatic moments while listening to the elephant emits a fierce whine.
The arrest was because the man from 25 years put the girl in danger by “deliberately and illegally trespassing” multiple barriers. According to the AP agency, the arrested man is called José Manuel Navarrete, who would have been detained with a bail of $ 100,000 Dollars.