5-year-old boy climbs out Bronx third-floor window, makes his way down to 1st floor fire escape and then falls, mother says

A 5-year-old boy fell from a first-floor fire escape in the Bronx and was injured on Monday morning, his mother said.

Fortunately, the boy, identified as Javontai Francis, is expected to be OK. He's listed in stable condition at Harlem Hospital. 

Surveillance video taken just before 11 a.m. shows first responders tending to Javontai on the pavement outside the building located on East 167th Street near the corner of Washington Avenue in the Morrisania section. 

"I feel like it's a miracle"

Luzkeishia Fortys, a mother of five, said her family was sleeping inside their apartment when they were startled awake.

"I'm getting a banging on my door, saying that my son fell out the window," Fortys said. "I was in shock."

Fortys said she believes her son crawled out of her third-story window at around 10:30 a.m. and made his way down from that's floor's fire escape to the first-floor fire escape and then fell to the ground.

"I don't know if it was an angel. I don't know what broke his fall, but it did," Fortys said.

She says by the grace of God her son is going to be all right.

"I feel like it's a miracle," Fortys said. "He has a fractured rib. Two teeth in the back broke. He has a chipped tooth and a laceration across his chin, and that was when he hit the ladder."

A witness said he ran to the firehouse on the corner when he saw Javontai wearing only underwear on the fire escape. 

"It was terrible. I didn't know what to do. I have kids of my own. When I saw the child fall, that hit me hard," Jesus Toribo said in Spanish. 

Mother slams building's landlord

Fortys said it's not the first time her son has escaped out of the window, which she says fails to properly lock.

"I told this landlord a dozen [expletive] times [to] fix the [expletive] windows. It's all I ever asked to fix the windows. He knows that my son is severely autistic," she said.

Sources told CBS News New York there were no window guards, but the New York City Department of Health says windows that provide access to a fire escape or serve as a secondary emergency exit are exempt from window guards and must remain accessible to ensure emergency exit.

CBS News New York reached out to the building's management office, but voicemail said it is closed through Thursday.