Sporting DNA can come in handy even off the field. Cristina, daughter of famed former baseball player Joe Torre, on Wednesday made a life-saving catch, pouching an infant that fell from a second-storey height.
The 44-year-old Cristina, a Montessori educator who works closely with children, had just stepped out of her home in Brooklyn when she spotted a toddler placed precariously atop the awning of a yoghurt shop, said New York Daily News , quoting police sources.
Even as she dialled 911, the toddler fell. Cristina swiftly positioned herself under the baby’s path and held him before he could hit the pavement.
One-year-old Dylan Miller had earlier tumbled out of a window and rolled onto the awning through the fire escape chute.
“People have been really kind … expressing gratitude … I personally have been in shock,” said Cristina.
Dylan’s parents — Tiffany Demitro, 24, and Sam Miller, 23 — who were asleep at the time of the accident, were charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, police said.
