Police: Fleeing father dropped toddler who died in brook

CLARKSBURG, Mass. (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy from Vermont found dead in a brook may have been dropped there by his father as he fled the scene of a car crash in northwestern Massachusetts. State Police troopers were called to the site of the crash in Clarksburg just before 2 a.m. Saturday. Authorities learned that the child was missing and searched the Hudson Brook. Police and Clarksburg firefighters pulled the child from the brook. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The boy’s father, Darel A. Galorenzo, a 35-year-old man from Readsboro, Vermont, has been charged with operating under the influence, manslaughter, reckless endangerment of a child and negligent operating of a motor vehicle.