NEW YORK — A police officer accused of not helping an 11-year-old girl dying of an asthma attack has been suspended without pay.
Brooklyn mother Carmen Ojeda was driving her daughter, Briana, to a hospital on Friday when she turned the wrong way down a one-way street and crashed her car. She claims the officer at the scene said he didn’t know CPR and couldn’t help the girl, who died soon after.
“I asked him to help me,” Ojeda said. “‘My daughter is dying. My daughter can’t breath. She needs mouth to mouth.’ And he said, ‘I don’t know CPR.’”
The police department said Tuesday it located the officer, Alfonso Mendez, by showing photographs of staff to witnesses.