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Child rescued from a claw machine at an Ohio community center

Video shows a child climbing inside a claw machine, forcing police and EMS to respond.
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Video shows the moment a child went inside a claw machine at the Mason Community Center in southwest Ohio earlier this week.

Police and EMS were called to the community center on at around 1 p.m. on July 7 to help remove a child trapped from a stuffed animal claw machine. Surveillance footage from the city shows the moment a child walks towards the machine, looks into the door where a prize comes out and begins climbing inside it.

WATCH: Video shows the child getting into the claw machine

Video shows child get trapped in claw machine in Mason

A man with a volunteer shirt walks by the machine, appearing to see the child's legs sticking out of the door before the child fully enters the machine.

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In another clip, employees appear to unplug the machine and bring it into a nearby store as a woman who appears to be the child's mom walks with them.

Police and EMS then work to open the back of the machine, letting the child out. A police report confirms the child had no injuries.

In the end, it appears the child gave their brand-new stuffed animal to their mom after they were let out.

This article was written by Taylor Weiter for the Scripps News Group in Cincinnati.