Two-year-old, wearing only a diaper, is found wandering outside his home in the Bronx on Christmas morning before being saved by a neighbor
- Luis Angel Guzman, 2, was found wandering around the Bronx on Wednesday
- Police said he opened the apartment door to his home and walked out at 10am
- Neighbor Marlene Melvin, 40, came across the toddler while visiting her mother
- Melvin took the boy to her parent’s home and dressed him in warm clothes
- She then dropped him off a fire department where first responders made sure the little boy got home safely
A two-year-old boy was wandering outside his home in a Bronx neighborhood on Christmas morning before being found by a neighbor.
Luis Angel Guzman managed to open the front door of his family’s apartment around 10am while his aunt and grandfather were sleeping.
The child, wearing only a diaper, then walked outside shortly after his mother, Lusenny Guzman, left to buy juice from a nearby store, according to the New York Post.
Two-year-old Luis Angel Guzman (left) was wandering outside his home in a Bronx neighborhood on Christmas morning before he was found by a neighbor (pictured in black)
The child, wearing only a diaper, walked outside shortly after his mother, Lusenny Guzman, left to buy juice from a nearby store. That’s when the family’s neighbor, Marlene Melvin (pictured in black), 40, heard the toddler crying and came to the rescue
‘I was with my 10-year-old son, and he was like, “Mom, is that a baby?” Melvin said. ‘When we got in front of the house, I said, “Oh my God, yeah, that’s a real baby”‘
That’s when the family’s neighbor, Marlene Melvin, 40, heard the toddler crying and came to the rescue.
‘I was with my 10-year-old son, and he was like, “Mom, is that a baby?” Melvin told The Post. ‘When we got in front of the house, I said, “Oh my God, yeah, that’s a real baby.”‘
Melvin said Luis was standing on the steps and the door behind him was wide open when she found him.
‘The baby must have just walked out of the house,’ she said.
Melvin said Luis was standing on the steps and the door (pictured) behind him was wide open when she found him
Melvin told the Post that she wasn’t able to get anyone to answer the door at the child’s home so she took him to her parent’s house and dressed him in clothing that belonged to her own toddler.
She then dropped the baby off at a local firehouse.
EMS arrived to the fire department and took Luis home where his worried mother was waiting.
The mother told the Post that she is ‘very grateful’ to Melvin for making sure her son was safe.