Woman rescues a toddler wandering in freezing temperatures; father arrested

GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Mary Jane Mayfield doesn’t consider herself a hero.

She says it’s by the grace of God that she saved a toddler in frigid snow.

She said she went outside her apartment at Greenfield’s Prairie Meadows apartment complex to grab something outside her sister’s car when she heard loud crying. “I heard the baby and I said, ‘Where is that baby?'”

Mayfield said she saw the toddler wearing just a T-shirt and diaper wandering outside in 13-degree temperatures on Monday afternoon. Mayfield pointed to the snow where little footprints remained on Tuesday.

She described the toddler as a year old; his skin was cold and pink. Her first reaction was, “Where’s your mom. Where’s your dad? And he (the toddler) came running and held me so tight.”

According to police records, they received a call on around 3 p.m. Monday. That’s when they saw Mayfield holding the toddler.

According to medics, the boy suffered from severe hypothermia with frostbite in his hands and feet.
Detectives say the child’s mother was at work. The child had wandered off after his 20-year-old father, Logan Nickolas, who was supposed to look after the child, fell asleep.

Police also found drugs and a gun in the home.

According to police, Nickolas wife said that he “uses marijuana, cocaine, pills, just about anything he can get his hand on.”

Mayfield said...