Two police officers went to investigate an abandoned house over in Milwaukee, but they really weren’t sure what they would encounter when they got there. They found a two-year-old toddler in the house! They really tried to make her feel super safe and secure, after all, they are both dads too!  Officers Dan Resnick and Vin Paolo responded to the call where a pregnant woman, with her toddler, who was living in an empty and boarded up two-story house. The House was on 29th Street near West Locust Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On entry into the house they saw a pregnant woman, she looked young, squatting inside, she said that she had lost her job and she had nowhere else to go. The house was completely freezing cold, with no electricity and no heating at all, it was super cold! Pablo said:

“[There was a] Broken upstairs windows, draft through the house, clothes and garbage and beds amongst the house”

On entering the bedroom, Resnik saw a 2-year-old toddler under a pile of winter sheets on the bed. Resnik said:

“I just moved the sheets and that’s when I saw the two-year-old for the first time”

The little boy was wrapped in two or three jackets and was deep asleep in the cold room, the only food in the house was a lonesome bag of chips. Paolo got the boy and brought him inside his warm squad car, he called a colleague to bring some McDonald’s for the very hungry looking boy. Paolo remembered:

“Oh, he was really hungry. He scarfed it down …He warmed up to us fairly quickly, but he didn’t say very many words. He did say mama and that’s about it”

“It hurts my heart to see children like this. It’s unfortunate, but we see this quite often”

Paolo has five adopted Foster children himself and really feels compassion for children like this, in these unfortunate circumstances.

Paolo said:

“Coworkers often joke with me as if I’m going to take home every child that I see, and I really wish that I could”

The boy sat on his knee and ate up his chicken nuggets and fries, Resnick took a photo of them both. The lovely photo that the Officer snapped and the toddler has been around after being uploaded by a friend of Paolo’s, called Paulette Rutter Drankiewicz, on Facebook. The post has received well over 4,500 reactions and over 2,400 shares!

Jennifer Ralston said on Facebook:

“I see this officer at work sometimes daily, he does great work!” 

Paolo’s wife, Mel Williams, said:

“He did it because he’s a loving, kind, compassionate, great person with a huge heart. He did it because he’s a dad, and wants every child to feel loved, safe, and have a full belly”

“We don’t want recognition,” Paolo told the Journal Sentinel. “It’s just what we do because we’re dads, we’re people.”

The Milwaukee police have announced that Child Protective Services have custody of the boy and his mother is working closely with social services to find a permanent accommodation. All in all its great news for the toddler who will now live a much more enriched safer life and a great thank you to the police officers involved too!

Sometimes in life things feel like they are all against us, this woman felt like that, she had a really awful tile, she gave up her children to social services and sought professional help to try to improve the situation! After she had reunited with her children again the local community banded together and gave her a gift, it was $625 dollars of gift cards, what an amazing start for her and a wonderful gift from concerned and kind people around her. It didn’t stop there and there was another surprise waiting for her…

From South Carolina, Jessica McCutcheon was experiencing a really difficult year, recovering from domestic violence and drug abuse problems her children stayed with carers on behalf of social services while she could get better and recover. When she was fit and able to get her children back from the social services the community wanted Jessica to really have a fresh start in life and achieve the stability she desperately looked for.

The people that cared for one of her children, 2 years old Harper, had cooked up a plan and they couldn’t wait to do it! They knew that she was working two jobs just to pay all her bills and they wanted to make her life a little easier for her. Shannon said:

“We just felt she was part of our family and we just felt that she needed her kids to have a good Christmas and we wanted to be a part of that”

They had a great idea! Kate Sepko, Shannon’s neighbor works at the North Greenville University as a cheerleading coach, they got some of the students there to help too! The students were able to amazingly and very kindly make a donation of $625 for Jessica.

Kate said:

“Some of them were giving $5, $10, $20. It just impressed me so much, you know, $5, $10 is a big deal for these kids. That’s a meal or a couple meals”

It was all given to Jessica in gift cards in a lovely gift box. When she opened the box she just cried, she was so touched by what they had done for her! But there was even more to come…

In the emotional toll and tears of happiness for the gift, Jessica was given some car keys, she had been given a car! People had realized that she had to keep borrowing other peoples cars to get the kids to school and do jobs, so they decided it was the time that she had a car of her own!!

Jessica was so happy, she could hardly believe what was happening to her! she said:

“It still brings tears to my eyes to know those young people who are trying to start their life actually care enough about me and my children”

People realized that she was recovering from domestic violence and left her some lovely messages of support on Facebook! One Facebook user wrote:

“Personally I think this story is wonderful and good for her trying to get her life straight and do the right thing for her and her kids.”

Someone else Wrote too:

“God bless these people for helping someone that is obviously trying to do better!”

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Nobody gets married with the intention of breaking up, but nevertheless, people do get married then decide to break up, usually because of the emotional turmoil of toil of some sort. They fight for the children and the assets that they own, or partially own… Dr. Scott Becker 30 years ago had a particularly difficult divorce… The Doctor, Scott had to experience his daughter torn from him and his life all because his wife decided to run away with her. He could then only wonder how his daughter was growing up without him in her life! Scott never gave up on his daughter even many decades later, he was always thinking about her and how he might be able to reunite with her, after some time his efforts really did pay off.   For quite a few years after his marriage had failed, Scott tried his best to find his daughter, in vain. He only wanted to have a normal father and daughter relationship and some conversations with her too! Spending many thousands of dollars on private investigators but none of them could help him find his daughter, called April. Many years down the line, 20 years to be exact, after looking for her nearly constantly, Scott decided to use the power of the internet to help him find her! He set up a website called aprilbecker.com he hoped that his daughter would somehow see it and get in touch with him! At last, the miracle happened, he could hardly believe it! It turns out that April was also desperately looking for him too! One afternoon she just googles for “Scott Robert Becker” and sure enough landed on the web page he had set up in hopes of finding her! April found on the website that there was a note for her, like a handwritten note, her dad had written the note for her, it was so she would contact him, and she could see that her dad was desperate to contact her. April says the letter hot her hard… She said:

“I must have cried for three hours straight”

She was overjoyed with the whole event of finding her father that she was forced to leave when she was only two months old! She couldn’t wait to talk to him and catch up on all the things they had missed! Scott was a little reluctant to email her back, it was so nerve-racking to finally find her, he knew just how he would test to see if it was really her! The test he went for was asking her:

“What’s your mother’s maiden name and are you green?”

April, being the real daughter, passed the test no problem at all! She said the correct maiden name and for her mother, and she said:

“Of course, I’m green. My birthday is St. Patrick’s Day”

She knew exactly what he was asking of her, Scott knew that he had found his baby at last! There are no words that Scott could find to express how he felt, all the emotions when he saw her again, like the huge hole in his life had been filled again, he was at peace with himself again. April said:

“Thirty years have passed. He missed everything …He missed high school. He missed junior high. He missed me being active in drama and theater. He missed my kids being born.”

Scott had even missed being a grandfather, but he was determined to catch up on lost time! Scott’s ex-wife had told his daughter little to nothing about him, what a great shame… April said:

“My mom is an excellent woman. She did a good job. But every child deserves to know their mother and their father”

She also said that she is a huge fan of children’s rights and advocates good parenting, with everything that she went through in her childhood she wants to help protect other children from having to endure the same as she did growing up!

When we get married we commonly say ‘until death do we part’ but for this amazing guy it goes beyond this for his wife that passed away, but he still truly loved… He continued to eat at the restaurant that they used to enjoy together. Now he takes her framed photo and has it on the table next to him as he eats, to feel close to her! This amazing guy, Clarence Purvis, 93, found love in his life, she was called Carolyn Todd, when she was, back in the day, just 16 years old, when they first met each other, he was 24 at that time! About a year later they married each other. This was to be the start of 63 years together, in that time their love just grew stronger and stronger and their lives grew closer, all the time filled with love and understanding As Clarence tells the story their time together was the stuff of fairy tales, it was a one in a million example of true love that fairy tale that everyone searched for, but very few actually find! Clarence said:

“Ain’t nobody loved one another more than me and my wife loved one another. I wanted what she wanted and she wanted what I wanted”

Dining at the same place for lunch for the last 13 years, Clarence and his wife went to the Smith’s Restaurant in Reidsville with religious dedication. Even when four years back Carolyn died he still didn’t leave her out, he took her photo to the restaurant and placed it on the table to remember her! He said:

“She was always with me when we were livin’. She’s with me now”

Lots of concerned people tried to convince Clarence that he is simply a little bit lonely and he would be so much better off if he moved forward and tried to move on. It’s simply the case that some people just don’t believe in the concept of true love as Clarence knows that it exists for his wife and him. He said:

“They said if I get me a girlfriend things will be better. I could ask her, could I get me a girlfriend? You know what she’d say? If you want too. That’s how we operated”

Around four times every day Clarence visits the grave of Carolyn a the Cemetery Glennville, he said it’s because he loved her so much and he misses her! He said:

“I imagine I come 125 times a month …I love her that much. And miss her that much. And think she would with me.”

Clarence’s behavior could seem a little over the top and worrying, and that Clarance can’t move on with his life. However, the other side of the story is that they had found true love between them. Clarence just is showing really that true love never dies! How amazing, if you think so to then SHARE with your friends and family, and watch below to see more!

One Christmas Cecil Rodgers was staying with family and very excited to be there, he received a disturbing call from someone who claimed to be his eldest grandson, it was only set to dampen his spirits…. The guy who called him said he had been in a car crash and really needed his help! Cecil said:

“A voice comes on and says, ‘Papaw, this is your oldest grandson. I’m in trouble…He said, ‘I hit a woman’s car and she was seven months pregnant. And they charged me with drunken driving and I’m in jail.”

Cecil then said that a lawyer “appeared” to come on the phone at this stage to talk to him and tell him what he needed to do next… He said:

“I’m going to try to get him out so he can drive home.”

He gave Cecil instructions to send them $2,300 by a direct store to store type of transfer, that would pay for his grandsons’ bail! The “lawyer” told Cecil to go the local Walmart and then transfer the money to the Walmart in Bel Air, in Maryland. He was really concerned for his grandson, Cecil drew out $2,300 from his bank and went to his Walmart Store as he had been told to do… The clerk that day in the store was Audrella Taylor, she would be dealing with the transaction that day, thankfully this was a good thing! Cecil told the clerk about what was happening to him and what he had to do, Audrella was experienced in the store and worked there for years, the alarm bells were ringing loudly in her thoughts when she heard his story! Audrella said:

“He said something about somebody was locked up in jail, he got a call and he needed to send $2,300 …I said I am going to refuse the sender. I’m not going to let you send that money. I think you are being scammed.”

She sensed that something wasn’t right and suggested he call his family first, just to check what was going on and to see if anyone had heard about the accident. Audrella was right, no one else had heard about the accident, his grandson was safe at college, the Walmart store manager, called Dominic Gross, was very happy with the staff member who raised the alarm and for her super fast thinking! He said:

“We are very happy with Audrella and all our customer service associates who help in that manner”

Also, he went to say that they are now training staff to recognize if someone is being scammed like this again! Cecil said: “I don’t have much” Which is why he was so pleased that woman had really helped him from being scammed. There are millions of people, but especially seniors who are the victims of financial fraud, we need to look after our elderly, and help protect them from scammers and bad people like this! Please SHARE the story and help others not get scammed with this rouse!

One year on the holiday season Bobby Puryear was passing through, he went to the ATM to get some cash but discovered that there was a bunch of money already left in the tray! He was shocked and knew straight away what he was going to do… He thought that someone had left it behind so he picked it up and realized that there was $500 there. That was no small amount at all, we have heard to saying before right, finders keepers, losers weepers….. Well, it’s not a very nice expression at all, certainly not in this case anyway, there is almost definitely something the bank can do to find out who it belongs to! He really wanted the money to find its way back to its owner so he drove around to the bank to speak to someone that could help him! When he got to the bank he told the teller he had found the money and what had happened? He wanted to give her the money but she wouldn’t take it, instead, she called for the manager!

When the manager came he just asked him what he expected him to do with the money?!? Puryear was really baffled, surely he was having a weird dream right? No, he asked if they would check who used the ATM just before him so they could return the money…. The manager then agreed and Puryear shared to Facebook, the manager had Puryear’s number to contact him also. The very next day after this he got a call from the bank, while he was working, they found the owner of the cash! He was on a three-way call with the manager and the 92-year-old lady called Edith who had lost the money. Edith drew the $500 for her monthly rent and without it, she would have been both upset and lost, what an awful thing to lose $500 especially considering her financial situation! Edith was so grateful that she wanted to give Puryear the $20 that she didn’t need for her rent, as a reward… That was all the money was left! Puryear said:

“I told her absolutely not, and have a great day”

When he came off the phone he realized that she only has this for the rest of the month; just $20! That really didn’t seem right at all… Puyear called the bank manager again and told him to transfer $200 from his account the elderly lady’s account, how lovely!! As he was speaking to the bank a co-worker overheard what was going on, the whole story and felt touched too, they also contributed to the elderly lady, he told Puryear he wanted to give $100 too! Puryear felt touched that another person felt like that too, but he didn’t realize that this was just the beginning…. About an hour on the bank called Puryear again, it was the manager again, who told him that he shared the story with all the tellers and they too grouped together and put in another $300 too! Puryear said on Facebook:

“So today was a good day …Merry Christmas a little early, Edith.”

This guy’s simple thoughtful act of kindness of returning the money from the ATM to the rightful owner turned into something much bigger and even nobler. All this was posted to Facebook and it has been shared over 180,000 times all around the world, how awesome! Puryear went straight to Facebook to explain his actions, in today’s world where many people just seem to look out for themselves then this act is even more gracious and inspiring to us all! This small act really touch everyone who read the story because it was so genuine and kind! Puryear said:

“I mean, this is just something small, but just think if everybody would just do something kind for someone every day …Imagine what this would be like.”

To Puryear $200 was a lot of money and quite a big deal to him and he couldn’t do this very often at all, but as he wrote he just couldn’t stand the thought of this elderly lady cold or not being able to eat!

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It was December 5th and this day was going to be a cherished memory for the family of 2 year old Miles Agnew. Santa made a special trip to the hospital this year for this little boy, he rushed there so he could sit on his knee for the very last time ever! Sadly Miles has a condition that he was born with called microcephaly, spastic quad cerebral palsy, and cortical vision impairment, brain malformations, and a feeding intolerance. When Miles was three months old he was adopted by his now parents, Michelle and Sean Agnew, the couple also have two other children Taveon, 11 and Hailey, 13. Michelle said:

“With the turn in Miles’ health and trying to make more memories as quickly as we can we didn’t think we would be able to do our Santa visit”

When he landed in hospital permanently then Santa came to him and tanks to the Secret Sleigh Project, an organisation that gives Santa visits to children who are very sick, either in hospital or at their homes. Michelle said:

“I’m sure if Miles could speak, he would have been excited to see Santa”

“Miles was very weak during his Santa visit, unfortunately [but] I think he appreciates it and he would have been pretty excited if he was awake.”

The Secret Sleigh Project Facebook page said:

“The family was grateful to have Santa there and to get pictures with all of their children, one last time”

Over recent years the Agnews have been through the loss of their two youngest children, they had genetic disorders, their names were Mannix and Maggie.

The family really doesn’t assume anything anymore, they are thankful for everything that life give to them, they treasure all their memories with family ever so much more! Michelle said:

“Although we have had so much heartache in our lives we try our hardest to keep moving forward”

Santa was played by the lovely Jerry Bodily and he treated Miles and his other siblings to an hour long visit, they had pictures together and Miles got to sleep on his Lap. Jerry said:

“I can’t lie, I got choked up …And there was a tear in Santa’s eye, but this was for this family’s memory”

The whole day was completely special to all involved, especially Michelle and Sean, they are so grateful to those who made those special memories possible. Michelle said:

“We are so fortunate for all the good times we’ve shared together and are so grateful for the friends, family and medical community that have supported us …Miles is such a special little boy who is very, very loved in our family.”

All our thoughts and prayers are for the family this Christmas!