Cop Follows A Strange Sound Into Stall, Comes Out Different Than Going In
By Timfly
When West Virginia police got a call about something odd going on in a grocery store bathroom, they assumed it would be just another routine response. But when they got there and heard the noises coming from the restroom stall, one cop came out of it much differently than when he went in.
St. Albans, WV Kroger, where incident took place. 39-year-old Donnyell Harrison
When West Virginia police got a call about something odd going on in a grocery store bathroom, they assumed it would be just another routine response. But when they got there and heard the noises coming from the restroom stall, one cop came out of it much differently than when he went in.
Employees at a Kroger grocery store near Charleston alerted St. Albans Police to a woman who had gone into the restroom and hadn’t come out in some time. With it being the early morning hours on Monday, the store wasn’t as busy as other times of the day. Nobody had tried to use the restroom since the woman, who wasn’t alone, went in and hadn’t come out. Employees didn’t even dare go in there, so they called police when noise started coming out of the bathroom, and the sounds didn’t stop.
Sgt. Phillip Bass was first to arrive on the scene and was met with workers at the store entrance. “One of the employees came out and said ‘Hey we’ve got a problem inside. We have a lady, she’s been in the bathroom about 20 minutes, she has a baby with her, she could hear her screaming at the baby,” Bass told WOWK. But that still didn’t prepare him for what he found when he bravely went inside.
Alone in the bathroom with a 14-month-old baby was 39-year-old Donnyell Harrison, who was supposed to be babysitting the little girl, but she had other pressing matters to attend to instead. It was clear that Harrison had been loading herself up on drugs, and the baby was upset and crying for attention, after not being cared for. But what officer Bass did from there left everyone in shock.
The Journal-News reports that Harrison was arrested on drug possession with the intent to distribute and now joins the baby’s mom in the South Central Regional Jail. The baby girl’s mom was already incarcerated for reasons not indicated, which is why her child was in Harrison’s care. But now, with nobody to watch after the baby and Child Protective Services not being readily available, Officer Bass stepped up to the plate to take care of this child as one of his own, leaving the restroom with the baby cradled in his arms.
Sgt. Phillip Bass taking care of the baby all night long at the station
CPS couldn’t take the child until later the next day, so Bass stayed up all night comforting, rocking, and feeding this abandoned little girl, who had lived a hard first year of her life. With the help of other caring cops at the department, the team all pitched in to buy the baby what she needed, including a few toys, diapers, and food.
What Bass and the other officers at the St. Albans Police Department did for that child, in one night, was probably more than this little girl has ever received in her whole 14-months of living. Bass saw her needs as a father and a cop, and he did what needed to be done and then some.
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