A family in Chicago was glad that their daughter was safe at home on Monday night.
The baby, who is 7 months old, was in a car that was stolen. When the thief saw her, she left her there.
Earl Abernathy found the 7-month-old boy who said he was lost near Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street on the Near West Side, near the University of Illinois Chicago. The temperature that day was in the 90s, and Abernathy’s car’s air conditioning wasn’t working, so the windows were down.
Abernathy could hear the girls’ cries because they were dumped in front of a church. Late last week, he was on his way to work when he heard the noise that he had to pay attention to.
“I could hear the baby crying.” “I put on the dangers, get out and run over here,” he said. “The baby was like linked over in the car seat.”
The baby, who was 7 months old, was left in a car seat in front of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 813 W. Roosevelt Rd., last Thursday, when it was very hot outside.
He said to stop.
“I just feel like that’s what a normal person would do,” he told me. “I just thought it was a fake situation.” Everyone I saw was riding by.”
Abernathy put out a call to 911 and went live on Facebook to see if anyone could help her find the child. He had no idea that the girl’s family was looking for her very badly.
Police say Jeremy Ochoa stole the family car while it was running at a BP gas station on Independence Boulevard and Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale, leaving the 7-month-old baby inside.
Police say the 38-year-old suspect dumped the child outside of the church, which is about four miles from the gas station.
“We were scared.” “We were scared,” Karen Fuller, the baby’s grandmother, said. “We didn’t know, and I just kept praying.”
Fuller said she was thankful that Abernathy got out of his car to help her granddaughter, who is 7 months old.
She said, “I was so happy.” “I went to his page, and I thanked him so many times.”
The police quickly found the girl’s family and put her back together. Abernathy, on the other hand, would do everything all over again.
He said, “Of course, any time.” “There were other ways it could have ended.” It was a good ending, that’s all.
The 7-month-old girl’s family said she is fine and wasn’t hurt in any of this.
