In what seems like a miracle, Officer Devyn Drake had just arrived home after an overnight shift in the VAW-120 hangar at Naval Station Norfolk when she went to check her mail and something caught her eye. Turns out it was a baby and the same one that had been abducted a few weeks earlier, reported WAVY.
It was reported that the Virginia State Police had issued an Amber Alert for the baby girl, Vanessa Varrios-Dasilva, after the car she was in was stolen from a Wawa in Chesapeake on Wednesday. The person who stole the car had apparently left the baby outside of an apartment complex in the Little Creek area of Norfolk. Thankfully, Officer Drake found her. “It appeared to be a car seat, it had a car seat cover over it, but where the head was located, it was open,” she recalls, “I saw this precious little baby girl and I was in absolute shock that a baby was out here, and it was starting to snow and I’m looking around. I didn’t see anyone and my instinct was to bring the baby inside of my apartment and to get her inside my apartment,” Drake further said.
Police reports say that the car was stolen around 6:30 a.m. Drake spotted the baby about 20 minutes later and thanks to that, the baby is now safe. She said the baby’s cheeks were a little cold, but other than that, she was fine, according to WAVY. “As soon as I saw that baby girl’s face, I was in complete shock, my heart broke a little,” Drake said.
While the police took the baby to get her checked out at a hospital, Drake saw the amber alert for the baby and called Chesapeake police. Drake believes that it was divine intervention that led her to help the infant, “I believe that I was switched to this shift specifically for this month just so it could be that divine intervention of me helping that baby girl,” she said. Although the vehicle has been found, the police are still searching for the person who stole it.
