KC Slumlord Neglect Leads to Black Baby’s Death from 8th Story Window; Rage Mounts After Parents Unjustly Jailed

In a heart-wrenching, outraging tragedy, a 3-year-old Black toddler fell to his death from an 8th-floor window at Independence Towers after his parents had repeatedly asked their slumlord to fix the broken window.To make matters worse, prosecutors have now charged the grieving parents with child endangerment, compounding their unimaginable loss with criminalization and incarceration.The tragic incident at Independence Towers is the latest manifestation of violent neglect by slumlords like Parker Webb and FTW Investments. For months, tenants have endured squalid living conditions, including cockroach infestations, pests, dysfunctional plumbing, a broken HVAC system, persistent rent hikes, and yes, unsecured windows. Webb left the tenants without hot water for two weeks back in March, and despite the lethal and unprecedented heat conditions, he and the company have left tenants without central AC for the entire summer. The parents of the deceased child had reported the broken window to management repeatedly, asking for it to be fixed for months.The father even resorted to using a makeshift lock with a blue pole in a desperate attempt to secure the window, a task he should never have been forced to undertake. As they waited months for the window to be fixed, their requests were not...