A nursing police woman in Argentina is being hailed as a hero after she was seen comforting a wailing infant.
An Argentinian police officer, identified as Celeste Jaqueline Ayala, is being hailed as a hero after she was seen nursing a hungry, wailing infant during the course of her shift at a hospital.
When Officer Celeste Jaqueline Ayala heard the infant, she was on duty as a guard at Buenos Aires’s Sor Maria Ludovica Children’s Hospital.
She investigated and discovered that a newborn boy had been brought into police custody due to his incessant weeping.
Ayala saw that the nurses and doctors were really busy, so she requested if she may hold the baby. The medical staff had warned the officer that the baby was “dirty and smelly,” yet he persisted on assisting the child nevertheless.
“I saw that he was hungry, as he was putting his hand into his mouth, so I asked to hug him and breastfeed him,” Ayala said. “Seeing him in such a state was heartbreaking,” she said.
Bystander Marcos Heredia took a picture of Ayala holding the infant, and after posting it online, it quickly went viral.
According to Heredia, “I want to make public this great gesture of love that you had with that baby” earlier that day.
You disregarded what the clean-cut doctors and nurses at the hospital had to say about the filth and stench. That doesn’t happen very often.
The Ayala security team said that the photo led to her promotion. They said she exemplified “the police we want” and “the police we are proud of.”
Hoy recibimos a Celeste, la oficial que amamantó a un bebé en el Hospital de Niños de #LaPlata para notificarle su ascenso. Queríamos agradecerle en persona ese gesto de amor espontáneo que logró calmar el llanto del bebé. La policía que nos enorgullece, la policía que queremos. pic.twitter.com/8aBp0Xj4Zj
— Cristian Ritondo (@cristianritondo) August 17, 2018