Rookie Trooper's Quick Actions Save Baby Girl's Life

Lila Wolfram was born in February of this year, the same month New Jersey State Trooper Benjamin Hockin graduated the state police recruit class. But the two did not know each other until Saturday, October 3, when both their lives would change forever.

Working out of the Kingwood Station in Hunterdon County, Hockin was dispatched to a home at 6:48 a.m. for a report of an unconscious and unresponsive infant, state police said. Hockin was the first trooper to arrive and brought inside his Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

When the trooper entered the home a local family doctor was performing CPR on the infant, police said. Hockin assessed the baby and found no detectable pulse. He administered the AED with one shock and began CPR, continuing until Milford-Holland EMS arrived, police said.

Those first responders then administered a second shock before taking over CPR and transporting Wolfram to Hunterdon County Medical Center. From there, she was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she’s now doing well and recovering.

“Trooper Hockin’s quick and decisive actions are a credit to him and the New Jersey State Police,” said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. “There is nothing more rewarding or meaningful than to save a life. This is a memorable start to a bright and promising career.”