A courageous police officer went out into a pond to heroically rescue a missing child.

Realizing that your child is gone and missing, with no idea where they could have gone, has to be one of the worst feelings in the world. So many thoughts and horrible scenarios would immediately start rushing to that mother or father’s mind. That would be every parent’s nightmare.

It would be unimaginable to be in a situation where your child is missing. Of course, every parent would do everything possible to locate their missing child. However, the average person is limited in what they can do in that situation, so alerting the authorities is always a good idea and is likely the first move of most parents.

In a clip posted on YouTube, a police officer responded to a call for a missing child in Florida. The video begins with officers frantically searching to find the little boy who had wandered away from home. The body camera footage shows an officer sprinting to the scene.

The short clip mentions that officers were starting to fear the worst. However, as one officer moves toward a body of water, he hears what sounds like a child screaming. Of course, the officer moves toward the sound and sees the youngster hanging out on a log in the pond.

Immediately, the officer leaps into the water and swims out to grab and rescue the child. At that moment of rescue, the officer said he thought of his children.

“I have a 5-year-old boy,” the hero deputy said. “He’s the same age, same size as him. So, when I picked him up out of the water, and he’s holding onto me tightly, you know, it felt like I was holding onto one of my kids.”

Thank God for that officer’s heroic efforts!

Proverbs 31:8 “Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.”