“With just two weeks to go until Christmas, one Providence family got an early gift from an unusual source,” Sean Daly and Jennifer Mobilia report for WPRI.
“Eight-year-old Anisa Otero, who has autism, went missing Sunday after wandering out of the family’s Salmon Street apartment,” Daly and Mobilia report. “After a frantic phone call to 911 and the help of a good citizen who spotted the child, city police were able to reunite the young girl with her parents.”
“Anisa was found alive and well, but it was not a complete recovery. Somewhere along the way, somebody stole her precious iPad, which acts as her window to the world,” Daly and Mobilia report. “‘When I saw her face, and the innocence on her, that’s what really got myself and John Reposa,’ said Providence Patrolman Mark DeCecco.”
Daly and Mobilia report, “Seeing the child’s heartbreak, Providence police officers Mark Dececco and John Raposa took action. They went to the Apple Store to buy Anisa a replacement iPad. However, after hearing Anisa’s story, Apple officials donated the device.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Providence, indeed.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chris” for the heads up.]
Outstanding!
=:~)
wonder why FindMyiPhone(iPad) wasn’t utilized.
Headline reads that AND the police replaced the iPad, story reads that alone replaced the iPad.
Read the article again and give the cops credit where credit is due. They went to the Apple Store to buy Anisa a replacement iPad.
yeah well, but it was that foot the bill.
besides, my point wasn’t about the “goodness of the cops” it was referring to the contradiction between the headline and story.
Splitting the hairs and missing the point. Truly a hallmark of our age of cynicism.
no, hardly cynicism…it’s this new thing they got out called accuracy.
cynicism would be to imply that donated the iPad for a touchy-feely PR spin. I hope you are able to discern the difference now.
So? THe cops were going to do it and that is good enough for me. Those guys are heroes in my book.
It was the cops who got the info to Apple who took it from there, so both are responsible for replacing the iPad.
What is truly remarkable is that Apple’s innovation, meant to help normal people with email and documents, could suddenly become a broader tool to help people with disabilities.
Innovation is critical to helping all people through myriads of ways. Let me count the apps…
Too bad, then, that Balmer won’t let any Apple products be used on campus outside the “research (tear down and copy)” division.
Stone tools work great on a surface.
Let the caveman continue.
We need more stories like this, after the tragedy in Newton Conn. It helps me and I hope others to cope with the pain.
Yes, terrible story, but I suggest you worry less about “coping” and start thinking about growing a pair.
I just got my concealed carry license today and I feel much better already.
Constitutional carry everywhere!
@ Armed:
I know you’re trolling, but for the benefit of those who are actually considering reality: Do remember that in Newtown, the reason the murderer had guns (and knew how to use them) is that he killed his mother with her own gun, and then armed himself with her other guns.
Poor child, some heartless entitled arse decided he / she / or it deserved it more. Hope the track down the lowlife.
Score one for the good guys!
It is so wonderful to hear of such kindness and humanity!
Thank you, thank you.
two good cops + Apple goodwill = good karma
Happy Xmas
Good for Apple
Good for the cops
Good for Anisa
Great for her parents. The best part of the story was that they got their child back.
We have found out first hand what an iPad can do for an autistic child. I encourage anyone that knows a child with these conditions to help put one in their hands anyway possible.
In other news a crippled man had his surface stolen.. Police found him and bought him an ipad…now he can walk.
A very ‘Applesque’ gesture of kindness. Even the very young and innocent ‘value’ the quality of an ‘Apple Inc.’ product.