Via Fox News:
A police officer is being called a “guardian angel” after responding to reports of a robbery ended up with him agreeing to adopt a homeless pregnant woman’s baby.
Albuquerque police officer Ryan Holets was investigating a convenience store robbery when he walked behind the building and found a woman getting ready to inject heroin.
Holets turned on his bodycam and confronted the 35-year-old Crystal Champ and her companion before realizing the woman was pregnant.
“You’re going to kill your baby,” Holets is heard on the bodycam chastising Champ, who revealed she was “seven or eight months pregnant.”
Holets, who appears to be writing a citation for the couple in the beginning of the video, begins talking to Champ about her situation.
“It’s not every day I see a sight like that,” Holets said in an interview with CNN. “It just made me really sad.”
It was in that life-changing moment that Holets decided to intervene.
“I just felt God telling me, ‘Tell her that you will do it because you can,’” Holets said to CNN.
That “it” was the father of four telling Champ he would like to adopt her baby.
Champ, who lives in a tent among the brush beside a highway in New Mexico, has battled addition to heroin and crystal meth for most of her life.
“I know how bad my situation is,” she told CNN. “I know what a horrible person I am.”
Champ had also “desperately wanted someone to adopt her baby,” Holets said and he wanted to be the one.
“I got so tired of seeing so many situations that I want to help, but can’t. But in that moment I realized I had a chance to help,” Holets continued.
After the conversation with Champ, Holets got in his squad car and drove immediately to his wife – with whom he had not yet discussed the magnanimous decision he made.
The police officer went right up to his wife and told her the whole story.
“He already knew my heart on the issue, and he knew that I would be totally onboard with it,” Holets’ wife, Rebecca, told CNN.