Last week on Valentine’s Day, an inmate and a group of four other low-level offenders in Pasco County, Florida (near Tampa) broke into a locked SUV to rescue a 1-year-old girl who had been accidentally locked in. The child’s mother, Shadow Lantry, recorded the rescue operation and posted it to Facebook. Check it out below.
The video has garnered thousands of views.
According to Lantry, her daughter’s father strapped her into her car seat and then tossed the keys to the SUV into the front seat. But, when he closed the back door he discovered the Tahoe was actually locked. However, the group of inmates were repairing medians nearby. They and the deputies rushed to help and within five minutes the baby was out.
“Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told WFTS it was a unique situation, allowing an inmate to use his skill set to break into a car for the right reasons.
‘There’s only a very small percentage of those criminals out there that want to fight us and want to attack us, but a lot of them, like these individuals, they know they made bad mistakes, bad choices, but they want to do the right thing in life,’ Nocco said.”1
And we are all so glad they did.
SOURCE:
1. CNN
