When a Melbourne police officer walked into Croton Elementary School last week, a first grade girl caught his eye.
He was there on other business, but he stopped to talk to the girl.
“He said he saw her walking by and the front of her shoes were flapping in the breeze, they were just split open in the front,” school bookkeeper Renee Carr said. A teacher said the girl was wearing her brother’s socks that had holes in the toes.
“He said, ‘I think you need a new pair of shoes. What size are you?’ ” Twelve, the girl said.
The officer left while school staff searched their own supplies. “A lot of times we’ll get donations of shoes, but we didn’t have any in that size,” Carr said.
A short time later, the officer — whose name the school staff did not remember — returned. From inside a Walmart bag he revealed two new pairs of shoes, one fuchsia, the other bright orange.
There were socks to match.
“She was just in heaven,” Carr said of the girl, who proudly showed off her new gifts and thanked the officer with a huge hug.” She put them on and she goes, ‘These are beautiful.’ ”
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