Deputy Pulls Over Speeding Driver And Gets Excuse Of A Lifetime

Jan 20, 2020 by apost team

What he thought was just a routine stop turned out to be very different for a Florida police officer. He pulled a speeding driver over and it was far from a routine traffic stop.

Deputy Robert Pounds saw a man in a 45 miles per hour zone going 63 mph. It led him to do something he never thought he would do as a police officer; deliver a baby. The man was Wilfrid Jean-Louis. His wife, Fabienne Gorges, was having their baby, and he was rushing her to the hospital. When he stopped the car, the expectant mom was screaming next to him in the passenger seat.

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Jean-Louis, 36, told the officer that he completely had the right to pull him over. He didn’t deny that. However, he also told him the baby was coming now, and he needed to speed. Deputy Pounds had at first thought the couple was lying to get out of a ticket. When he saw the baby’s head crowning, he thought otherwise. Jean-Louis was in complete shock.

He didn’t know what was going to happen to his wife or baby. The video of the event has been shared over 400 times. Pounds went to call for backup and get gloves along with a blanket. Before he knew it, he was delivering a baby. He was a father of three himself. He put the blanket down and soon after he was holding the newborn baby in his arms.

Pounds stated, “I guess you could say it was just my training that kicked in. The baby did most of the work, we'll put it that way." This amazing experience created a bond between the officer and the family. There was even a picture posed on Facebook of them posing together after the unique incident. Both men were looking happier than ever. Amazingly, the couple even named their newborn daughter after him giving her the name Leila Rober Jan-Louis. Her middle name will forever remind them of the day and the officer who delivered her.

Wilfrid Jean-Louis stated, "It was only fair. He was there, and he did what I wasn't able to do." Deputy Pounds ended up letting the speeding ticket slide after the day. Due to the unique nature of the circumstances, Wilfrid Jean-Louis didn’t get any citations that day. He was able to leave the scene with his new daughter along with his wife.

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