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WESTLAKE, Ohio (WJW) – A good Samaritan helped save a newborn infant after finding the child’s mother unconscious with the baby still attached by the umbilical cord.
Police and paramedics were called to the Westspring Inn in Westlake, Ohio, on Tuesday after the witness, who was walking her dogs, spotted a woman passed out in the grass outside the hotel. Initially, she was not sure what she was looking at.
On police body camera video, she told officers, “So I’m like, ‘What is that sticking up in the air?’ and the baby’s face was down in the grass and its butt was up like this and the baby was crying, and she was out like a light.”
“The mom was?” the officer asked.
“Yes, I was like, ‘ma’am, ma’am,’ screaming at her and she did not budge,” the witness responded.
Since the mother would not respond, the witness used scissors from her purse to cut the umbilical cord while waiting for help to arrive, according to police.
The good Samaritan told a 911 dispatcher that she made sure the baby was breathing OK and wrapped him in towels.
Police say the father of the infant, 35-year-old John Bratsch, told them that the mother, 42-year-old Chanel Mueller, gave birth to the baby in their hotel room, and while Bratsch was cleaning up the room, Mueller went outside with the baby still attached and passed out.
Police and paramedics were called to the Westspring Inn in Westlake, Ohio, on Tuesday after the witness, who was walking her dogs, spotted a woman passed out in the grass outside the hotel. Initially, she was not sure what she was looking at.
On police body camera video, she told officers, “So I’m like, ‘What is that sticking up in the air?’ and the baby’s face was down in the grass and its butt was up like this and the baby was crying, and she was out like a light.”
“The mom was?” the officer asked.
“Yes, I was like, ‘ma’am, ma’am,’ screaming at her and she did not budge,” the witness responded.
Since the mother would not respond, the witness used scissors from her purse to cut the umbilical cord while waiting for help to arrive, according to police.
The good Samaritan told a 911 dispatcher that she made sure the baby was breathing OK and wrapped him in towels.
Police say the father of the infant, 35-year-old John Bratsch, told them that the mother, 42-year-old Chanel Mueller, gave birth to the baby in their hotel room, and while Bratsch was cleaning up the room, Mueller went outside with the baby still attached and passed out.
