A police officer went above and beyond the call of duty to save a
baby’s life.
Officer Luisa Fernanda Urrea, who recently became a mom herself,
was called to a scene in a remote forest in Colombia after an
abandoned infant was found. A local woman, Edinora Jimenez,
discovered the crying baby in the undergrowth of the forest.
“I was collecting some oranges when I heard something
crying,” Jimenez told a local news source, as reported by
the Huffington Post Thursday. “I thought it was a cat until
I looked closer and saw that it was a baby girl.”
The infant, who still had part of her umbilical cord attached, was
starving and facing hypothermia, so Urrea breastfed her, saving her
life. “I’m a new mother and I have milk, and I recognized the
needs that this poor little creature had,” Urrea told the local news.
“I think any woman would have given her nourishment in the same
circumstances.”
The Colombian Family Welfare Institute is now caring for the infant
while it finds an adoptive home for her. In the meantime, police are
searching for the mother, who may face criminal charges. Orphanage
director Jhon Arley Murillo said:
“We could be dealing with a case of attempted homicide,
although it’s the prosecutor who will decide the charge.”
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