By Ariana Erickson –
Police officer Brian Zach will never forget the day he met little Kaila at a welfare check in march 2018.
The mother and her boyfriend on counts of physical abuse. “But she was still smiling,” Brian said.
At the police station in Kingman, AZ, where they waited for Child Services to pick her up, Brian and Kaila watched Wreck It Ralph.
“She grabbed my hand and put it in her lap like I was the one who needed to be consoled,” Brian said. “It melted my heart right away.”
A few days later, Child Services asked Brian: Would he and his wife Cierra consider being a placement for her?
“I met her Saturday night,” Brian said. “By Wednesday night, she was dropped off at our house.”
After two days, Kaila was calling Cierra “Mom” or “Mommy.” She started calling Brian “guy” but after two weeks called him “Dad.”
Little Kaila became part of the family, which already had two kids.
Kaila has suffered skull fracture, a brain bleed and a dislocated elbow, in addition to bruises and a swollen eye.
The Zachs fostered for two years. They had no idea if Kaila’s biological mom would straighten up and get her daughter back. But after two years, the Mohave County Superior Court ruled for Kaila to be adopted.
“She means everything to me,” Brian said. “Absolutely everything.”
