By C1 Staff
MADISON COUNTY, Ga. — A former inmate who served a decade in a federal institution for manufacturing cocaine saved the life of a 15-month-old baby he found crawling along the side of a highway.
11 Alive reports that Bryant Collins was working as an auto repairman when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
“I had seen something out of the corner of my eye, and I thought it was a baby,” he said. “I just stopped and, when I got out, there was a baby … almost in the highway.”
Collins called 911 and stayed with the child for two hours while emergency services arrived. It was determined that the child had crawled through the woods, 300 yards from home.
“Everything was pretty much superficial that we saw,” said Madison County Sheriff Kip Thomas, when discussing the child’s condition. “Honestly, that’s almost a miracle: that a 15-month-old can go that far from her house, into the woods, fall down an embankment, wind up near a major highway ant really not get hurt that bad.”
Collins has been free and clean for five years. The child’s father, however, was arrested and police are looking for the mother as well.