A Florida Sheriff’s Deputy is being hailed as a hero for his quick action after finding an unresponsive three-year-old girl in a hot car. Things didn’t look good for the girl who was stuck in the car for twelve hours. It’s hard enough to imagine anyone leaving a dog in a car, but this child was intentionally left in a car for half a day by her own mother. Thankfully, a cop came to her rescue and saved her life.
Deputy Bill Dunn didn’t believe the preschooler was alive when he saw her, but he refused to give up on her. He grabbed the seemingly lifeless girl and rushed her to his police cruiser. He blasted the air conditioner and hoped for a miracle. Fortunately, that’s exactly what he got.
Soon, the little girl began moving her eyes and Dunn could feel her heart racing. There wasn’t an ambulance on the scene and he knew he couldn’t wait for one, so he rushed her to the hospital himself.
The dash camera recorded him talking to the young girl as he quickly drove her to the Central Florida Regional Hospital. “It’s OK baby, talk to me, you’re OK,” he can be heard telling her.
After he handed her over to the hospital staff, he left realizing there was nothing more he could do. Dunn was seen slumping over his cruiser, exhausted physically and emotionally from the ordeal.
“It was a heck of a thing to experience that adrenaline dump. And then when it finally goes away, how it really does affect the body,” the hero cop said.
Seminole County Sheriff’s Office released video of the ordeal profiling Deputy Bill Dunn’s life-saving actions. That can be seen below.
The young girl was released from the hospital three days later. While there are plenty of cases of parents becoming distracted and forgetting their children in the car, that was not the case here.
The girl’s mother, Casey Dyan Keller, strapped her in a car seat before going out to buy alcohol for the night. The girl was alone in the car for half a day. Keller attempted to cover her tracks by calling 911 to say her car was stolen with her daughter inside. The mother has been charged with “child neglect with great bodily harm.” Had it not been for Deputy Dunn’s quick actions, she would likely be facing some sort of homicide charge as well.
Click here to watch another police officer rescue kids intentionally left in a hot car. That cop read the mom the riot act after she returned to her car.