Police officer honored for finding child.Lake Worth, Florida Lake Worth is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, which takes its name from the intercoastal waterway along its eastern border. The lake itself was named for General William J. Worth, who led U.S. forces during the Second Seminole War. , Police Sergeant Mike Hall was honored in the nation's capital on May 10 for a rescue he made in Palm Beach County, Florida Palm Beach County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of 2007, the county had a population of 1,351,236 according to the University of Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research[1]. , last year. In May 2005, Palm Beach County residents were shocked to learn that a little eight-year-old girl had been kidnapped from her home. Nine different agencies joined in the search for the missing girl--who was rescued when Sergeant Hall and Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department Corporal Bob Cresswell found her in a recycling bin, pinned beneath rocks and pieces of broken concrete. The girl had been abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point by Milagro Cunningham, 17, who was a friend of her family. Cunningham was an illegal immigrant illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) from the Bahamas who had been arrested twice before, but was never deported. Cunningham had left the girl for dead in the bin in an abandoned landfill. The illegal immigrant was charged with attempted first-degree murder, sexual battery, and other felonies resulting from his heinous crimes toward the defenseless little girl. Because of Sergeant Hall's role in saving the life of the girl, he was invited to Washington to receive one of three National Missing Children's Awards from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. . Representative Mark Foley Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. , who nominated Hall for the award, presented the police sergeant with a plaque commemorating his efforts. The girl whom Hall rescued, along with her mother, attended the ceremony. "I'm very, very grateful. God sent us an angel that day--it was Michael," the mother told the Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau. The girl's mother is also attempting to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring more stringent review of the citizenship status of juvenile immigrants. |
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