Good for her!
A man tried to kidnap a little girl from a Walmart store, and it’s caught on tape. But the 7-year-old escaped because of the lesson her parents taught her about strangers.
Brittney Baxter was toy shopping at an Atlanta Walmart when a man grabbed her, tried to put his hand over her mouth and take her out the store.
But she remembered her Stranger Danger training.
“Yeah, I was just like trying to do like this and kick as hard as I can,” Brittney said.
The man dropped Brittney and ran out of the Walmart. Police wasted no time in looking at Walmart’s surveillance video. It not only captured the chilling incident, it also captured the suspect’s getaway car which was later pulled over.
Police said 25-year old Thomas Woods was recently released from state prison. Woods matched the video, but denied being in Walmart. He told reporters after he was arrested, “I didn’t bother nobody, I was never there.”
Woods was later charged with attempted kidnapping.
I tell my kids to bite and then to run as fast as they can. We go round and round about what adults you have to obey and why, and which adults you can be mean to. It's very difficult for them, but I think (hope?) they will understand if they ever end up in a position like that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDefinitely. Especially if you are going to let your 7-year-old wander off and shop the toy department by herself.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou're so perfect - you're kid never gets out of your site in a store. Teach Me Master. Teach Me!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Woods was later charged with attempted kidnapping."
If we lived in more civil times, Woods wouldn't have been charged with anything until he spent the requisite time in the hospital recovering from the beating that the popo laid on his sorry behind.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI am sure if this happened in a public school she would have been expelled for fighting.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA close escape, thank goodness. Good for her, but it'll effect her none the less.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI recommend the D.A. avoid a costly trial and cut a quick deal for very little jail time. Figure a sentence of 30 days should do it.
That's 29 more days than it should take the prison general population to see how good of a shank cushion Woods is.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI chastise whiny behavior from my grandsons with "don't act like a little girl!" (It hasn't occurred to them that I was once one.)
This story may force me to change my line.....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMight I suggest "union member" as a substitute?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusetee hee. their aunt is a teacher and a union member. i'll debut it in front of her and see what happens.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is perhaps 100 times more likely that a stranger grabbing a small girl is doing so to save her from falling debris or an out control car. So if a child is taught to fight all strangers, it is farm more likely to cost life than save it.
But that is the minor issue. The major issue is all of the hundreds of thousands of times well meaning adults see children getting into danger and rather than intervening and be accused of 'kidnapping' or 'rape' or something else by the now perfectly sensitized paranoid little nippers, they pass on by.
Child kidnapping by strangers is incredibly rare in America, not so child accidents.
Paranoia will destroy ya. Or more accurately, will kill children.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWoods was recently sprung from State Prision...what was he in prision for I wonder?
Attempts at abduction this brazzen are rarely a kidnappers maiden voyage. I speculate (that's all just speculate) that he's done and or tried this sort of thing before.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUnfortunately, stories like prove once again that every parent has to teach their kids that evil exists - and that there are people out there who would like nothing more than to hurt them.
As a parent of 3, I can only hope this freak (and others like him) never sees the light of day again. However, given the state of the justice system, I know that's not the case.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOh just give her an OHenry candy bar and read her "The Ransom of Red Chief". That'll quiet her down.
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