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Mom: Officer delayed care for dying girl
NEW YORK, -- New York police say they're investigating a woman's report her 11-year-old daughter died after an officer prevented her from rushing the child to a hospital.
With her daughter Briana suffering a severe asthma attack and attempts to stop it unsuccessful, Carmen Ojeda hit a parked car while driving her sport utility vehicle down a one-way street to avoid traffic, then flagged down the officer, her husband Michael told the New York Post.
Briana's mother told the Post her daughter was still breathing and begged the officer to allow her to continue driving to Long Island College Hospital a few blocks from the Brooklyn playground where Briana became stricken Friday.
Her husband told the newspaper she had called 911 and grew impatient when the ambulance had not arrived as their daughter's condition worsened, but the officer would not let them proceed.
He said the officer got out of a marked city police cruiser and screamed, "What the (expletive) are you doing going down the wrong way?"
"My wife screamed at him, 'Help! My daughter needs CPR,'" Michael said.
He said the uniformed man "smirked" and replied, "I don't do CPR."
The New York Police Department said it was investigating whether the uniformed man was a regular city police officer, an auxiliary officer, a traffic agent or a private security guard. A source told the newspaper every officer in the precinct that includes the Carroll Gardens playground has been interviewed and none had encountered the mother and her daughter.
"She was my angel," Carmen Ojeda said of her daughter. "I cannot believe my baby is gone."
Scott Voloshin, a passerby who tried to resuscitate Briana on the way to the hospital, told New York's WABC he had no doubt the mystery man was a New York police officer.
Whoever stopped Ojeda eventually followed her to the hospital and ripped up a ticket he had planned to give her, her husband told the Post.
NEW YORK, -- New York police say they're investigating a woman's report her 11-year-old daughter died after an officer prevented her from rushing the child to a hospital.
With her daughter Briana suffering a severe asthma attack and attempts to stop it unsuccessful, Carmen Ojeda hit a parked car while driving her sport utility vehicle down a one-way street to avoid traffic, then flagged down the officer, her husband Michael told the New York Post.
Briana's mother told the Post her daughter was still breathing and begged the officer to allow her to continue driving to Long Island College Hospital a few blocks from the Brooklyn playground where Briana became stricken Friday.
Her husband told the newspaper she had called 911 and grew impatient when the ambulance had not arrived as their daughter's condition worsened, but the officer would not let them proceed.
He said the officer got out of a marked city police cruiser and screamed, "What the (expletive) are you doing going down the wrong way?"
"My wife screamed at him, 'Help! My daughter needs CPR,'" Michael said.
He said the uniformed man "smirked" and replied, "I don't do CPR."
The New York Police Department said it was investigating whether the uniformed man was a regular city police officer, an auxiliary officer, a traffic agent or a private security guard. A source told the newspaper every officer in the precinct that includes the Carroll Gardens playground has been interviewed and none had encountered the mother and her daughter.
"She was my angel," Carmen Ojeda said of her daughter. "I cannot believe my baby is gone."
Scott Voloshin, a passerby who tried to resuscitate Briana on the way to the hospital, told New York's WABC he had no doubt the mystery man was a New York police officer.
Whoever stopped Ojeda eventually followed her to the hospital and ripped up a ticket he had planned to give her, her husband told the Post.
