Story highlights The 1-year-old boy was taken to the state police barracks

One trooper gave the boy a bath and a teddy bear to play with

(CNN) It must have been a heartbreaking sight during a routine traffic stop -- a baby in the backseat, covered in vomit.

But no worries, because West Virginia state troopers knew just what to do.

The baby was found after troopers pulled over a suspected drunk driver earlier this week in Princeton.

The female driver appeared to be drunk, trooper D.C. Graham said about the traffic stop, and the car was a mess: trash throughout and an overwhelming, foul odor. Then he noticed the baby in the backseat, a boy clad only in a diaper, with a bad cough and sitting in an improper child safety seat. And drenched in vomit.

"I've been doing this for a while now and that was probably one of the worst things I've experienced, seeing a baby in that condition," Graham told CNN.

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