By Police1 Staff
MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. — Sheriff Lieutenant Kenneth Knox received a call last month for a choking child.
“I was dispatched to a residence to a child choking, it was this beautiful little princess,” Knox wrote on his Facebook page. “She was turning blue and fading fast. Mom and dad tried CPR with no luck and when I arrived she was not breathing.”
Knox performed reverse CPR on two-month-old Ma’Yavi Parham and was able to get her breathing again, according to his post.
Now, Knox will be a permanent part of baby Ma’Yavi’s future — as her godfather.
“I am so overwhelmed at the public outpouring and support. Ma’Yavi Parham is now my Goddaughter which blesses me as a person and a man,” he wrote. “I am the one who was blessed with her being brought into my life. She is a beautiful child and to know I will see her grow into a beautiful woman who can be whatever she wants.”
He said in the post that out of his 25 years as a cop, it is his greatest and most profound accomplishment and it made “every second of those 25 years worth it all.”