After being seen on tape nursing a hungry, wailing infant at a hospital, an Argentinean police officer is being praised as a hero.

After being spotted on camera nursing a hungry, wailing infant at a hospital, Argentinean police woman Celeste Jaqueline Ayala was going about her regular business. She is being praised as a hero.

When Officer Celeste Jaqueline Ayala heard the baby sobbing, she was on her regular duty as a guard at the Sor Maria Ludovica Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires.

She went to investigate the source of the sobbing and discovered that a baby boy who had been arrested by the police was the source of the screaming.

Ayala wanted to hold the infant after noticing that hospital workers were occupied with other patients. The officer insisted on treating the baby despite hospital staff saying it was “dirty and smelly.”

“I asked to give him a hug and breastfeed him because I could tell he was hungry because he was putting his hand in his mouth,