On March 4,
2019, Det. Michael Harton of the North Haven, Connecticut Police
Department was on duty at a movie theater when suddenly a mother came
running out of a theater with her baby in her arms. The baby,
three-month-old Eimaan Huckaby, was in distress. Her mother, Nikki, had
frantically come to the police officer for help. “My baby is not
breathing!” she exclaimed to Harton.
Harton, who
is also a trained EMT, began performing a variation of the Heimlich
maneuver for infants. “I started with back blows and that’s when she
curled her back up and completely went limp on me,” Harton said. “Then I
started doing back blows, chest compressions, back blows, chest
compressions.”
Huckaby
remembers screaming and praying as Harton worked with little Eimaan, who
weighed about 10 lbs. as she had been born prematurely in December.
Suddenly,
Eimaan started to cry. Harton, relieved and thankful, kept holding the
little girl until the medics arrived. He gave her the nickname, “Little
Angel.”
Harton
checked on Little Angel over the next few months. On the one-year
anniversary of the life-saving episode, Huckaby and her little angel
visited Harton at the police station. A family friendship formed.
Harton and his wife, Susan, began meeting with Huckaby and “Tooka” (Eimaan’s
nickname) for dinner on occasion. They also began celebrating
birthdays, holidays, and special occasions together. Harton and his
wife were present on the day that Tooka began her first day of
kindergarten last fall.
Harton became
known to Tooka as “Uncle Mike.” "It has been so rewarding for us to
have all of them [as] a part of our lives," Huckaby said. "And it's
also a story because we come from two different walks of life. We're
from two different cultures, two different races. And for us to come
together, especially in the way today's world is with community and
police, it just brings a whole new light to things," she said.
"[The Hartons]
treat us like family and are so supportive,” Huckaby declared. *
When we were
“dead in our trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1), Jesus came to our
rescue (Galatians 1:4). He gave His life to save us from our sins (1
Corinthians 15:1-4) so that we might live. Because of Jesus, we may
experience an abundant life now (John 10:10) and eternal life in heaven
(Romans 6:23).
God will save and give eternal life to those who
place their faith
and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from
their sins in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31),
confess Jesus
before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized (immersed) into Christ for the
forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to cleanse from sin
those who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7-9).
With those
that accept Jesus’ offer of salvation and life, a special bond forms.
It’s the bond of love in God’s spiritual family, the church. It’s a
relationship that will endure forever. For that life-giving
relationship, we shall be forever thankful.
-- David A.
Sargent
* Information gleaned from “Connecticut police
officer forms strong bond with baby girl he saved five years ago: 'We're
family'” by Gretchen Eichenberg of Fox News,
www.foxnews.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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