Video emerged of the terrifying incident, which showed the gorilla handling the four-year-old boy. SEE ALSO: Child falls into zoo enclosure, survives encounter with massive gorilla The zoo had to ...

an onlooker tells PEOPLE An eyewitness of a 4-year-old’s fall into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati ... “God protected my child until the authorities were able to get to him.

“It looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child — like the female who rescued and returned the child from the Chicago exhibit,” she writes. Goodall is most likely ...