The parents of a toddler who fell into a gorilla enclosure at a US zoo - leading the animal to be shot - will not face charges, a prosecutor said Monday, closing the probe into an incident that transfixed the nation, AFP reports.
The boy's family faced a deluge of public criticism after keepers were forced to kill the rare 400-pound (180 kilogram) animal to protect the three-year-old during the incident at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio.
The mother - who was watching three children in addition to the toddler - did not act "in any way where she presented this child to some harm," Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters told a news conference.
She was "attentive by all witness accounts, and the three-year-old just scampered off," he added.