Deputies respond 2 days in a row to same child not breathing

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A Pinal County deputy, Robert Taylor, administered CPR twice to the same child in two days.

The child, Milanna Monique Baeza, 2, of Arizona City, did not survive on the second day, and investigators have learned she may have had a pre-existing medical condition.

 Shortly before 5 a.m. on June 25, Pinal County sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call about a 2-year-old child not breathing in the 9200 block of West Troy Drive in Arizona City.

Taylor responded and arrived at the residence within minutes. The child was not breathing, her eyes were rolled back and she was starting to turn blue. Taylor immediately began cardio pulmonary resuscitation on Malinna. After about two minutes, the girl was breathing on her own and Taylor could feel a pulse.

Malinna was taken by air ambulance to Banner Children’s Medical Center in Mesa, where she was released later that day.

 The following day at 11 p.m., the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office received another 911 call about Malinna not breathing. Taylor and Deputy Russell Warren arrived at the residence within minutes and found Malinna not breathing and cold to the touch. Both deputies took turns performing CPR on Malinna until medical personnel arrived on scene. Malinna was transported to the Casa Grande Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

An autopsy will be conducted on the girl to determine the cause of her death.

Taylor is the same deputy who saved two lives within one hour on Feb. 3. One was by performing CPR on an 8-month-old infant and the other was by locating a missing 83-year-old man who had fallen into a well and was barely conscious.