Full Circle: Woman Rescued As A Little Girl Becomes Deputy Sheriff

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – California’s Escondido Police Department is sharing the heartwarming story of a once little girl rescued from neglect by an Escondido police officer who just earned her own badge – which was pinned by the very officer who saved her life.

According to the Escondido Police Department, in November 2000, an officer responded to a house to find an underweight 6-week-old girl on a bed next to her mother and a meth pipe. Suffering from neglect at the hands of her mother, who was only 17 years old and struggling with addiction, the little girl was placed in protective custody.

“Almost 22 years later… That same little girl wanted the officer to know she had been adopted into a loving family and turned out all right, so her mom found the officer (still at Escondido PD) and invited him to Colorado Springs so that he could meet that “little girl” and pin HER badge at the El Paso County Sheriff’s Academy Graduation,” the department wrote in a Facebook post.

Attached to the post is four photos of Deputy Young standing with the Escondido officer as he pins her badge to her uniform, along with a final message to the new deputy:

“Congratulations, Deputy Young. Welcome to a noble profession.”