NIGHTMARE as 3-year-old winds up in crocodile pit — suspect is already back on the street

A man suspected of attempted murder is already back out on the street in the United Kingdom even though he may have caused a toddler to end up in the crocodile enclosure at a zoo.

On Thursday at Johnsons of Old Hurst zoo, located about 80 miles north of London, a 3-year-old boy somehow ended up in the crocodile enclosure. How exactly he got there remains unclear, but it does not appear to have been an accident.

The man ‘was assessed as not being fit for interview.’

A New York Times headline about the incident said a “man forced” the boy into the crocodile enclosure, though the article noted that “it was not immediately clear whether the boy was thrown” into it.

The BBC reported that at least one