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A four-year-old boy was res­cued af­ter be­com­ing stuck at the top of a Fer­ris wheel at Movi­eTowne on Sun­day evening.

Around 6:25 pm, Melis­sa Tay­lor, 40, of Beetham Gar­dens, took her three chil­dren to the amuse­ment park and be­gan plac­ing them in a Fer­ris wheel pod. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, she had just seat­ed her son Khu­ni Mc­shine when the ride be­gan mov­ing be­fore her oth­er chil­dren were se­cured.

The ride at­ten­dant pressed the emer­gency stop but­ton, but the wheel con­tin­ued to ro­tate. They at­tempt­ed to reach Khu­ni, but their ef­forts were un­suc­cess­ful.