Woman Catches Baby Falling From 2nd Floor

A woman who caught a baby boy who had tumbled off a second-floor fire escape in Brooklyn is getting kudos from her dad.

Joe Torre, former manager of a New York sports team, said in a statement Wednesday that he was “very proud of my daughter Cristina’s actions today during an incident in Brooklyn involving a small child.”

“I didn’t really know what was going to happen. … You just move into action — you don’t really think about it,” Cristina Torre told the Daily News.

She was having coffee at a cupcake shop when bystanders saw the one-year-old dangling from an awning of a frozen yogurt store next door.

“I’m talking to him saying, ‘Don’t come down, stay there,’” she said. “He helped himself with his arms. He was dangling. I knew he would be flipping very soon.”

She said the child “literally landed in my arms.” Torre credited her father for her “good hand-eye coordination.”

According to police, the child somehow climbed onto the fire escape. He was in stable condition.

The baby’s parents — Sam Miller, 23, and Tiffany Demitro, 24 — were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child younger than 17.

This article appeared in print on page 4 of the June 21st, 2013 edition of Hamodia.