SOUTH BRONX — Two police officers resuscitated an unconscious 1-year-old girl on a South Bronx sidewalk Friday night after responding to her mother's cries for help, the NYPD said.
Plainclothes officers Felix Baez and Giovanni Laguna were patrolling Mott Haven near 138th Street and Willis Avenue about 8:30 p.m. when they noticed a woman screaming for help in Spanish, carrying a baby girl in her arms, police said.
The two men stopped the car, and rushed towards the woman, whose 1-year-old child was turning blue and was unresponsive, according to police.
Laguna grabbed the child and performed CPR, police said. After about a minute, the baby's pulse started to return, and she began to move and open her eyes, according to the NYPD.
As the two men rushed the mother and baby to nearby Lincoln Hospital in their unmarked car, with Laguna continuing chest compressions in the back seat, Baez remained on the phone with a dispatcher, and officers from the 40th Precinct and the NYPD's public housing bureau blocked off traffic along the way, police said.
The baby is being treated in stable condition, according to the NYPD.
The cause of the child's distress was not immediately clear.
