Fred Fuller
Moderator Emeritus
Video at the link... have you talked to your children about resisting would-be a kidnapper? Not to make them paranoid, but to make them aware...
Additional video link - http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...l-Escapes-Attempted-Kidnapping-162950036.html
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...video-captures-man-trying-to-kidnap-girl?lite
Philadelphia surveillance video captures man trying to kidnap girl
Police in Philadelphia are searching for a predator after the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl in broad daylight was captured on surveillance camera. The girl is now home safe with her family. NBC's Natalie Morales reports.
By NBCPhiladelphia.com
Philadelphia police are offering $10,000 for any information on an attempted abductor caught on surveillance video trying to snatch a 10-year-old girl off a Philadelphia street in broad daylight.
"I want this creep off our streets, immediately," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said at a press conference on Wednesday.
In the video, which the police department released on its YouTube page, a man gets out of a white car and comes up behind a girl and her 2-year-old brother. The kids had been walking home on South Lee Street in South Philadelphia after getting water ice (a frozen dessert also called "Italian ice") a couple of blocks away when the man grabbed the little girl and tried to run off with her -- twice.
"It is gripping, to say the least. It is disturbing," Captain John Darby, with the Philadelphia Special Victims Unit, said.
The victim can be seen struggling with the attempted kidnapper and then falling to the ground. The man tries a second time to take her, but is stopped in his tracks by the little boy's screams.
"Ultimately, with the screams from this little boy and by her account, [the victim] says the child literally screams louder than anything she's ever heard before. He literally interrupts this assault," Darby said.
The attacker ran, got into his car and fled east on Porter Street.
The girl's father told NBCPhiladelphia.com he is proud of how his daughter fought off the attacker. The father said his daughter bit the man and struggled to free herself, techniques he claims she picked up while watching NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
The girl's neighbors went door to door, collecting donations to buy a Toys "R" Us gift card for the girl.
"I think it's sickening what happened to her," said Jennifer Carulli. "Seeing the surveillance video, it's heartbreaking. I think it's so scary that he followed her all the way here and actually got out of the car to grab her. It amazes me that this happened, it amazes me."
"What is he capable of doing any other time?" asked Harry McDowell. "What's he capable of doing right now?"
The suspect is described as a thinly built Hispanic male between the ages of 30 and 40 standing between 5'9" and 6' with a thin mustache, short black curly hair and medium complexion. He was last seen wearing a black short sleeve t-shirt and blue pants.
The man’s vehicle is described as a late 1990s-early 2000s white mid-sized foreign 4-door, possibly a Mitsubishi or Nissan with a black scuff mark on the driver’s side rear bumper and a dent on the left front fender wheel well.
Police warn anyone who sees the suspect to not approach him, but to call 911 or local authorities at 215-686-8477.
==========================
Apparently a "person of interest" is being interviewed in the case...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...-Kidnapping-Person-of-Interest-163031026.html
Person of Interest in Custody in Caught on Cam Attempted Kidnapping
Police confirm they are talking to a person of interest in the attempted abduction of a girl from a South Philly sidewalk
Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit investigators tell NBC10 they were talking to a person of interest Thursday morning in the caught on camera attempted sidewalk abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
Police believe the man being questioned is the one seen on video trying to kidnap the girl off the the 2400 block of Lee Street in South Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.
Police say the man's family pressured him to turn himself in. Police interviewed and released him Wednesday night, the girl identified him and cops picked him up again Thursday morning.
Police sources say they also have the car the man allegedly used to drive away.
Additional video link - http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...l-Escapes-Attempted-Kidnapping-162950036.html
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...video-captures-man-trying-to-kidnap-girl?lite
Philadelphia surveillance video captures man trying to kidnap girl
Police in Philadelphia are searching for a predator after the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl in broad daylight was captured on surveillance camera. The girl is now home safe with her family. NBC's Natalie Morales reports.
By NBCPhiladelphia.com
Philadelphia police are offering $10,000 for any information on an attempted abductor caught on surveillance video trying to snatch a 10-year-old girl off a Philadelphia street in broad daylight.
"I want this creep off our streets, immediately," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said at a press conference on Wednesday.
In the video, which the police department released on its YouTube page, a man gets out of a white car and comes up behind a girl and her 2-year-old brother. The kids had been walking home on South Lee Street in South Philadelphia after getting water ice (a frozen dessert also called "Italian ice") a couple of blocks away when the man grabbed the little girl and tried to run off with her -- twice.
"It is gripping, to say the least. It is disturbing," Captain John Darby, with the Philadelphia Special Victims Unit, said.
The victim can be seen struggling with the attempted kidnapper and then falling to the ground. The man tries a second time to take her, but is stopped in his tracks by the little boy's screams.
"Ultimately, with the screams from this little boy and by her account, [the victim] says the child literally screams louder than anything she's ever heard before. He literally interrupts this assault," Darby said.
The attacker ran, got into his car and fled east on Porter Street.
The girl's father told NBCPhiladelphia.com he is proud of how his daughter fought off the attacker. The father said his daughter bit the man and struggled to free herself, techniques he claims she picked up while watching NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
The girl's neighbors went door to door, collecting donations to buy a Toys "R" Us gift card for the girl.
"I think it's sickening what happened to her," said Jennifer Carulli. "Seeing the surveillance video, it's heartbreaking. I think it's so scary that he followed her all the way here and actually got out of the car to grab her. It amazes me that this happened, it amazes me."
"What is he capable of doing any other time?" asked Harry McDowell. "What's he capable of doing right now?"
The suspect is described as a thinly built Hispanic male between the ages of 30 and 40 standing between 5'9" and 6' with a thin mustache, short black curly hair and medium complexion. He was last seen wearing a black short sleeve t-shirt and blue pants.
The man’s vehicle is described as a late 1990s-early 2000s white mid-sized foreign 4-door, possibly a Mitsubishi or Nissan with a black scuff mark on the driver’s side rear bumper and a dent on the left front fender wheel well.
Police warn anyone who sees the suspect to not approach him, but to call 911 or local authorities at 215-686-8477.
==========================
Apparently a "person of interest" is being interviewed in the case...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...-Kidnapping-Person-of-Interest-163031026.html
Person of Interest in Custody in Caught on Cam Attempted Kidnapping
Police confirm they are talking to a person of interest in the attempted abduction of a girl from a South Philly sidewalk
Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit investigators tell NBC10 they were talking to a person of interest Thursday morning in the caught on camera attempted sidewalk abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
Police believe the man being questioned is the one seen on video trying to kidnap the girl off the the 2400 block of Lee Street in South Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.
Police say the man's family pressured him to turn himself in. Police interviewed and released him Wednesday night, the girl identified him and cops picked him up again Thursday morning.
Police sources say they also have the car the man allegedly used to drive away.