ALBION, MI (WNWN/WTVB) – Quick action by officers from the Albion Department of Public Safety and the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department saved the life of a two year old child on Saturday morning as they prevented the youngster from drowning.
The Albion Department of Public Safety issued a press release detailing a violent domestic dispute involving a 35-year-old woman who is the mother of four children.
Officers from ADPS and the Calhoun County Sheriff’s department responded to a 911 call with children screaming and asking for help on Bluestem Court in Albion.
When officers arrived they heard commotion from behind a locked door in the residence. An ADPS officer kicked the door open and found the woman holding a two-year-old under the water in the bathtub. The ADPS officer quickly grabbed the two-year-old from the woman and took her into the living room, and began CPR.
After giving a few quick breaths, the child coughed up water and began breathing on her own. The Sheriff’s Deputy detained the woman.
The two-year-old girl had two stab wounds to the chest and throat, and the four-year-old boy had cuts. It is also believed both the two-year-old and four-year-old had possibly ingested some cleaning fluid.
It did not appear at the time that the eight-year-old or the 15-year-old girl had any injuries.
Police say the 15-year-old was the one who called 911 for help. The mother was taken into custody and transported to the hospital as she may have also ingested cleaning fluid.
The two-year-old and the four-year-old were transported to the hospital in Jackson and later flown to Ann Arbor and were last known to be in stable condition.
ADPS was assisted by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department, the Marshall Police Department, the Michigan State Police, the Calhoun County Dispatch Authority, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Tribal Police, CAMJET, Albion Community Ambulance, the Sheridan Twp Fire Department , and the Marshall Area Firefighters Ambulance Authority.
