On average 37 children die each year in the United States from heat exposure after being left in a car on a hot day, and by the last week of July, 21 children mostly under the age of 2 had already died, which is why one cop was more motivated than ever to save a baby who had been left in a car on a 90+ degree afternoon.
Lt. Jason Short was the first to arrive after someone called 911 about a baby that had been left alone in a car, and sure enough, when he looked inside the car he spotted an infant inside with a blanket and a bottle. However, the baby was completely motionless and Short feared the infant might already be dead.
Short quickly took his baton out, smashed the glass of the window, and took the baby out of the car, but she still didn’t move. He tried giving the baby CPR, but when nothing worked, he called an ambulance for backup. It was only when he put his finger in the baby’s mouth to check her airways that he realized something was different.
“And I went to put my finger in its mouth and it was all resistance,” Short said. “And I’m like, ‘This is a doll.’” The doll, named Ainsley, belongs to Vermont resident Carolynne Seiffart who spent $2,000 dollars on the lifelike doll after her own 20-year-old son died from Hunter’s Disease in 2005. For Seiffart, Ainsley and her other ‘reborn dolls‘ are her way of coping with the loss. “I’ve been laughed at and embarrassed by all the fuss,” Seiffart explained after the incident. “You can’t know how people choose to deal with their losses in life.”
Despite the mix-up, Short has no regrets and would do everything exactly the same if put in the position again. “I would never assume that it’s a doll,” Short said. “I would always assume that it’s a child. I would never do anything different.”
To avoid people breaking her car windows, Seiffart has since posted a sign on her car alerting strangers that the baby is, in fact, a doll.
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Cop Breaks Into Car And Rescues A Lifelike Doll is an article from: LifeDaily