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Rookie Delco Police Officer Saves 2-Week-Old Baby's Life

A rookie police officer in Delaware County is being called a hero after he saved an unresponsive newborn's life Sunday.

Officer Jonathan Keeney says he was just doing his job.
Officer Jonathan Keeney says he was just doing his job. (CBS3 Philadelphia)


UPLAND, Pa. (CBS) — A rookie police officer in Upland, Delaware County is being called a hero after he saved an unresponsive newborn’s life Sunday. Officer Jonathan Keeney says he was just doing his job.

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At 21 years old, he has just a year’s experience on the Upland Borough Police force, but he handled a very scary and stressful situation like a total veteran. “I just kept asking him, ‘Is she going to be okay? Can you save her? Can you help her?'” said Charmaine Freeman, baby Mecca’s mother.

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