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DEEJAY HERO SAVES LOST 2-YEAR OLD
Monday, July 07, 2008
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
A Good Samaritan picked up a naked, not yet 2-year-old tot wandering along King Drive in Jersey City by herself yesterday and turned her over to police, officials and the alert hero said yesterday.
Harvey King, a deejay, said he was driving back home from a canceled gig at Liberty State Park at about 10:40 a.m. when he spotted the 21-month-old toddler about to cross the intersection at Claremont Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive - about a half block from the little girl's home.
"Everybody was standing there looking at her walking down the street," King said. "I grabbed her just as she was stepping off the sidewalk and into the street. It scared me that something might happen to her."
King then drove her to the South District police precinct, reports said. The child, he said, did not seem scared or upset, but was "very quiet." When he took her to the station "she did not want to let go of my shirt," he said.
The child was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center where she was examined and given a clean bill of health, reports said. The girl was then put in the care of the state Division of Youth and Family Services, said city spokesman Stan H. Eason.
Police later identified the girl's parents when the father showed up to the South District asking if anyone had spotted his little girl, Eason said.
The mother of the girl told police she had left the child with her 16-year-old cousin while she went to do laundry, Eason said.
But because the child was found unattended, DYFS now has to investigate the incident and make decisions about the child's custody and whether charges should be filed against the parents, Eason said.
DYFS spokeswoman Mary Helen Cervantes declined to comment yesterday. When the girl's home was phoned, a man who answered quickly hung up.
King was still in disbelief yesterday afternoon.
"I could not understand why (a baby) should be walking down the street without any clothes on." King said. "It was by the grace of God that I was there at the right time."
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The people who just watched that poor little thing walking around should be ashamed of themselves! And that girl is lucky that she wasn't picked up by a pedo. I shudder to think what could have happened to her.
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