The cries of a young child woke her parents early Thursday morning -- but they never could have guessed what was making her wail.
Police came to their Tempe, Arizona, home at about 2:30 a.m. after a woman told the 911 dispatcher that her husband was fighting with a burglar, WJW reports.

According to Tempe Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Josie Montenegro, the woman woke up when she heard her 2 year old whimpering. She noticed her daughter's bedroom door was closed, which was unusual.

When the father checked the living room, he saw a stranger was holding his baby.

He immediately started fighting the man, who police have identified as Oren Cohen, 34.

Montenegro told WJW that officers arrested the man on suspicion of burglary and aggravated assault, and he noted that police are still investigating his intent.

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If that were me in that situation, I don't think the guy would be alive by the time Law Enforcement showed up.

I'm glad no one was seriously injured or killed.

I honestly cant say what I would do if I woke up to that situation. I would like to think know what I would do, and I have made many arrests over the years but the truth is you never know until your in that situation.

Yeah, I saw that story too. My first thought also, was that I would react with lethal intent, but as you say, until the moment of, no one really knows what they would or wouldn't do. Just that defense of the child would come first.

The version I read, said the burglar was naked. That would suggest extreme mental defect.

Closest I have directly experienced, was far less, but similar. I was awakened at about two AM, by tremendous loud noise downstairs. I went to check, and saw that my front door was making the sound, as someone was kicking or hitting it extremely hard, over and over.

I called 911, and the police arrived within two minutes, and took a drunken slob into custody, who apparently though he was reporting early for work somewhere, and that he'd been locked out.

Because of the child, that why I don't know if I would use lethal force. That really makes the situation very fluid.........

If he was naked I would think he was there to do something very bad to that kid.

He is damn lucky the child was ok but I still would go at him for breaking in and touching my child

anybody who breaks into my home is getting shot

I agree, but a situation involving a kid isn't an ordinary situation and even a cop wont take the shot if someone is holding a child. It's not like you see on TV where they just shoot the suspect in the head.