In July 2018, a sheriff’s deputy came across a starving baby girl living in squalor, inside a filthy trailer with her father. The deputy was responding to an unrelated call in San Bernardino County, California; and fearing for her life, the officer intervened. Almost three years later, the little girl is now thriving in a new forever home after winning the hearts of her foster parents. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Richardson had been investigating a shooting in a Rancho Cucamonga neighborhood, and upon questioning neighbors, he was led to a man named Drake Petronzi in a mobile home. Petronzi was found holding his emaciated baby girl in a wet towel. “[T]he baby did not look her true age,” Richardson explained in a news release. “I have a young daughter, so I know what a healthy six-month-old baby should look like.” The baby’s father insisted she was fed, but Richardson and …