It was a sight that jarred motorists on the busy Dolphin Expressway. Westbound traffic suddenly came to a standstill around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and a woman sprang from her car, holding a baby, screaming for help. Pamela Rauseo, 37, of West Kendall, quickly got that help for her 5-month-old nephew, little Sebastian de la Cruz, who was turning blue. Rauseo said she was in a panic, thinking she could not let anything happen to the baby while in her care. “My sister had trusted me with him,” she told reporters. Drivers stuck in 836 traffic just east of 57th Avenue swung into action. Lucila Godoy, 34, of Miami left her 3-year-old son in her car to help Rauseo revive the unconscious infant, who she said was born prematurely and had respiratory issues. Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz, stopped right behind Rauseo, jumped out of his car. “I heard screaming,” he said. He saw a woman pop out of the car in front of him “screaming that the baby can’t breathe.” Diaz quickly ...
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