After Dad Is Killed In Crash, Police Officer Sees His 2-Year-Old Daughter And Starts Singing To Comfort Her

Apr 08, 2019 by apost team

In June 2015, a family of six, Carlos, Stephanie and their four children suffered a grisly road accident in Brighton, Colorado.

According to 9News, The family car hit a momentum that threw the family out. Unfortunately, Carlos, the father, didn’t survive.

All the other family members were rushed to the hospital, some by ambulance and some were airlifted.

On arriving at the accident scene, Police Officer Nick Struck found the youngest member of the family, two-year-old Sirena unharmed. She escaped unscathed without an injury. However, she was in all alone, in distraught, shocked and drenched in gasoline.

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It was a paramedic who first found Sirena and handed her to Officer Struck. On seeing the young child, he could see the trauma written all over her face.

Immediately, he switched from a police officer to a parent and knew it was up to him to comfort Sirena and assure her that everything was going to be okay.

Being a father himself, Officer Struck had one too many situations where he stepped in to calm and comfort his own daughter. This was his chance to work his magic again. He remembered how he sang his daughter the popular song “twinkle twinkle little stars,” and yet again he sang the song to young Sirena.

She seemed to forget the tragic events and slowly eased her tension.

While some wouldn’t know what to do with a traumatized child, Officer Struck knew just how to handle her gently like a father and protect her. A witness must have been moved with the officer’s humane actions and took a photo of the two.

In such a dark time, the police officer found it in his heart to accommodate an innocent victim of circumstances.

As soon as the photo of Officer Struck holding Sirena found its way into the social media platforms, people couldn’t help but share the compassionate actions of the officer. It went viral.

Struck went out of his way, beyond his job description to comforting a child who probably had no idea of what was going on.

Struck’s workmates are proud of him for stepping in to show that, police officers are also empathetic beings. Doesn’t Struck’s actions make you feel the warmth and love that should be among human beings? Let's continue spreading Officer Struck’s wonderful deeds. Struck deserves more recognition. The world deserves more people like Struck.