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An Alabama school resource officer is being hailed a hero for saving a baby’s life at a basketball game. Last week at a basketball tournament at Albertville High School in Albertville, Alabama, a woman came running up to school resource officer Jonathon Bearden with her baby in her arms. The woman was frantic because her baby wasn’t breathing.
Officer Bearden, who’s been trained in CPR, but has never had to perform it on an infant, took the baby from the woman, did an assessment, flipped the baby over, lowered the baby’s head and started performing back blows. “I heard a little cough, and then he started crying and I said if ‘We’re crying, we’re breathing!'” Bearden recalls.
Bearden, who is a father of two, says he just relied on his instincts when the mother approached him. “I think as a dad you kind of, in your mind, know that you might have to [perform CPR],” he explains, “So I just did what I was trained to do.” Albertville High School principal Jordan Phillips has known Bearden since he was a student and isn’t surprised by the officer’s heroics and says, “I’m just proud of the guy and everything he does for our school.” He hopes the story will highlight the value of school resource officers.
Source: WHNT