{"id":119242,"date":"2026-02-01T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:41:09","slug":"nypd-officer-saves-choking-2-year-old-boy-in-bronx-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119242\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer saves choking 2-year-old boy in Bronx apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A rookie NYPD officer<\/a> is being hailed as a hero after saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who was choking just weeks after coming to the rescue of another choking baby.<\/p>\n

Officer Freddy Cerpa and his partner, Officer Megan Ficken, responded on Jan. 16 to a 911 call involving an unconscious 2-year-old boy<\/a> who was choking in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Body camera video captured the tense moments as officers worked to clear the child\u2019s airway.<\/p>\n

The boy soon showed signs of life. The child, who had been choking on mucus, was taken to Jacobi Hospital as a precaution and is doing well, police said.<\/p>\n

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Cerpa said he credits Ficken with the latest rescue. (Handout)<\/p>\n

“Just weeks after saving an infant who was choking, Officer Freddy Cerpa once again stepped in to help save the life of a 2-year-old child in distress \u2014 a powerful reminder that New York\u2019s Finest are always ready when seconds matter most,” the New York City Police<\/a> Foundation said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

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Bodycam video showed officers working to clear the child’s airway.\u00a0 (Handout)<\/p>\n

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Cerpa told WABC-TV<\/a> that his experience helping to save a 1-year-old girl in December helped with the latest rescue call.<\/p>\n

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The 2-year-old boy is going well, according to police. (Handout)<\/p>\n

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“The first one was definitely surreal,” Cerpa told the outlet of the first rescue. “But in my opinion, this one is all Officer Ficken, and she was there first. I was just glad I was able to assist her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A rookie NYPD officer is being hailed as a hero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6592,9,24,63,3286,129,131,130,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-119242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-good-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-police-and-law-enforcement","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}