NEWARK, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Bodycam video captured the dramatic moment a New Jersey Transit police officer saved a newborn baby's life in Newark.
Officers responded to a report of a baby in distress inside a women's restroom at Newark Penn Station at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday.
The officers found the baby girl and her mother inside the train station's bathroom after the infant stopped breathing.Officer Bryan Richards gave the baby CPR, but she was still unresponsive.
Officer Alberto Nunes drove to the hospital as Officer Richards continued chest compressions on the infant.
The infant eventually started breathing and began to cry just as the officers pulled up to the emergency room at Univesity Hospital.The baby girl remains hospitalized and is expected to be okay."It's obviously not something you see every day, but as a department, it's something we do train on," Richards who was previously an EMT for 12 years, said.
"We do train in CPR training every couple of years to keep our training up.... When the stress and everything else... you do go back to your training. And that's exactly what we did."