Disturbing police bodycam video shows the moment officers rescued a 4-year-old girl who had allegedly been left alone in her father’s Colorado apartment, wearing only a diaper, with drug paraphernalia visible inside the home.
According to the Boulder Police Department, officers found the child last Tuesday around 10:30 p.m. standing by herself on a second-floor balcony, crying and calling for help.
When the little girl could not get the door open, responding officers quickly improvised, climbing a fence and using patrol vehicles to reach the balcony and bring her to safety.
As one officer made his way up the fence, the child could be heard shouting, “Hey, don’t break that!”
“I won’t,” an officer calmly replied, reassuring the girl moments before he managed to climb onto the balcony.
Police said the child was not injured, but officers discovered “a large amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia” on a coffee table within her reach.
The officers changed the girl’s diaper, helped her put on clothes and brought her to the police station while they worked to contact her mother.
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She was later taken by police to her mother’s residence in Denver.
Cops were able to reach the girl’s father, identified as Paul Wilson, 44, who told police that his daughter was asleep when he left to get food.
While talking to police on the phone, Wilson refused to return back to his apartment.
The next day, police “had a good idea where the father might be,” and tracked Wilson down at a bar in Boulder.
The father was allegedly found with nearly 15 grams of cocaine and a large wad of cash in his possession at the bar and was swiftly arrested.
While being arrested, Wilson can be heard saying to officers in the bodycam footage, “you’re too f–king good at your job man.”
Wilson was hit with several charges, including child abuse, reckless endangerment, felony unlawful possesion of cocaine, and felony drug distribution charges, a spokesperson for the Boulder Police Department confirmed to The Post.
“More importantly, we’re glad this sweet child wasn’t hurt and we hope she only remembers the kindness of everyone who helped her this week,” the department wrote on Facebook.
