NJ teen uses CPR training to save newborn's life just days after class

A 16-year-old girl in Ocean County helped save a newborn baby s life by putting CPR skills she had learned just two days earlier. Ariana Leonardis and her 15-year-old cousin, Riley Porter, sprang into action on the evening of Oct. 24 when they encountered frantic parents pleading for help for their 3-week-old baby in Tuckerton. I was in the Wawa parking lot, and I heard this couple screaming, Porter said. The emergency unfolded in the parking lot of a former urgent care facility, where the parents were desperately trying to get help because their baby wasn t breathing. Porter called 911. I m with these two people, and they re saying that their baby isn t breathing, he told the dispatcher. Meanwhile, Leonardis approached the parents and offered to help. I walked over I just was like, do you need me to perform CPR? And they told me yes, Leonardis said. Just two days earlier, Leonardis had completed CPR training in a human development and childcare class at O