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<\/picture><\/a>Officer Jody Thompson witnessed a lot of bad things while on the job. He\u2019s had to deal with murderers, robbers, and other criminals. But the ones that he dislikes the most are the child abuse cases. Officer Thompson thinks it is unbearable that people take out their rage and frustration on a tiny human \u2013 someone who cannot defend themselves and who do not know any better.<\/p>\n
But one call changed Officer Thompson\u2019s life forever. Over the radio, the dispatcher sent him to a house in Poteau, Oklahoma where he had to help save the life of a child. That was because the call had come in about child abuse.<\/p>\n
Children were always close to Officer Thompson\u2019s heart. He and his wife had three of their own. That\u2019s why child abuse calls always made him angry, and he wished he could do something to help lift the abused children up and out of the horrible situations they found themselves in.<\/p>\n
Little did he know that on that day in Poteau, Officer Thompson would be adding another child to his family of 5.<\/p>\n
When he arrived at the scene, an 8-year-old was cowering in fear. He was shocked and afraid and badly beaten. His hands and feet were bound with a rope, and the boy was covered in bruises. He had been shoved into a trash barrel. Before this had all happened, the boy\u2019s parents had held him in the shower and soaked him to the bone. He was cold and tied up and vulnerable. Officer Thompson\u2019s heart went out to the child.<\/p>\n
Thompson felt an instant connection to the boy. He helped him out of the situation and brought him to the hospital. He vowed, then and there, not to leave the boy\u2019s side. When John, the boy, arrived at the hospital, he was in critical condition. But while John recovered in the ICU, Officer Thompson was by his side. It didn\u2019t take long for John to regain his strength and his spunky spirit.<\/p>\n
When John was deemed healthy enough to leave the hospital, the Thompsons adopted John into their family.<\/p>\n