Happy Valley Road after a tot fell from a trunk and broke his leg.

But the boy's mother is not satisfied and said yesterday she would complain to Police.

Ridge Rego-Souza, 22 months, is in traction in the children's ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

On June 10, the toddler broke his left leg when he fell from a three-foot high toy trunk, a spokesman for Family Services said yesterday.

After an investigation, Family Services recommended padding be placed around the trunk, she said. "We didn't think it was neglect,'' she said. "It could have happened to any child,'' and children at the nursery "are monitored as carefully as two-year-olds can be monitored.'' Miss Julia Rego-Souza, 23, the boy's mother, said she wants to know why her child was allowed to climb on the trunk in the first place. Nobody knows if the child fell or was pushed, and she is unhappy about receiving different stories from the centre's coordinator and another employee there, she said.

While the coordinator and Family Services said Ridge fell from the trunk, another day care employee said he fell down stairs, Miss Rego-Souza said.

She felt Police should have been notified at the time of the accident. When Ridge was ten months old, "he went under a chair and fractured his skull,'' she said. "They had cops all over me, and I had to prove it was an accident.'' Mrs. Yolanda Burrows, coordinator of the centre, said she reported the accident to Family Services and is acting on its report.

The trunk has been removed until the padding arrives from overseas, she said.

"It's just one of those accidents,'' Mrs. Burrows said. "It was nothing that was done deliberately.'' A Police spokesman would not confirm whether a complaint was received yesterday from Miss Rego-Souza.

INJURED TOT -- Miss Julia Rego-Souza, shown here at the hospital with her son Ridge, said she is not satisfied with the answers she received about how the 22-month-old was injured at a Government day care centre.