Terminal Cancer Can’t Stop Her — Meet 6 Year Old Police Chief Abigail Rose Arias

Abigail became chief 18 minutes after being sworn in at the Freeport Police Department, the article reports. "(I want to catch) even the people that are speeding, I kind of get nervous, but I never give up,” Abigail told the station. "They beat up my body," she said. "So I want to help the bad guys go away. I want to help this cancer in, like, 5 seconds."

Her spirit won over the entire courtroom filled with people there to witness Abigail’s ceremony, the article says. 18 minutes after being sworn in, Abigail took her chief's badge and made her pledge to the chief.

Two years ago, pediatric oncologists found a stage four Wilms Tumor wrapped around Abigail’s aorta, KHOU reports. The 80 rounds of chemotherapy used to shrink then remove the tumor almost killed her. Abigail was allergic to one of the therapies used.

For five months, her cancer lay in remission, the article says. Then it spread to both lungs. In November, Abigail’s doctors said they no longer knew any treatment or chemotherapy able to cure the girl. Her cancer is terminal.

"It felt neat inside my heart and inside my body I felt excitement and all of (the) love," Abigail said of her swearing in, which took place at the Freeport Police Department in Freeport, Texas.

"That just devastated us," said Rueben Arias, Abigail's father to KHOU. "We're strong in our faith. We believe in God. The doctors can say what they say medically but we know that God is the one that has her destiny in his hands."

"Our greatest struggle is saying no to fear," Eileen Arias, Abigail's mother told the station.

Freeport PD has 33 sworn officers. “None is more determined to bust bad guys than the 6-year-old holding badge number 758,” the article reports. Dozens around Brazoria County chipped in and donated a custom uniform, food, police patches, challenge coins and more to make Abigail's day special. She really wanted the badge, though. It is her license to attack the "bad guys" in her body: cancer.

Around Christmas, the family met Freeport Police Chief Ray Garivey. He and Abigail bonded the moment she shared her dream.

"She (said) I want to be a police officer," Garivey told KHOU. "I looked back at her dad and said she probably shouldn't have told me that. He kind of winked at me and I said we're going to make that happen."

 

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