14 DAY TRIAL // A 7-year-old girl kidnapped while walking with her mother in Sacramento has made a daring escape, getting away from her abductor's car while it was moving.
Sacramento Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jason Ramos reports that the girl was taken after walking at a distance from her mother and two siblings, in broad daylight.
ABC News wrote that the mom saw the kidnapping take place and immediately asked for help, screaming and running after the vehicle.
Resident Christian Covey describes seeing the incident take place. The 7-year-old was taken and put into the abductor's trunk, but managed to jump out in less than a minute.
The unnamed girl broke free from the moving vehicle, fell onto the pavement and ran towards Covey. She suffered only minor scrapes and bruising and she was checked out at a local hospital.
“She was lying on the ground when I saw her,” Covey says.
By the time anyone could get a good look at the perpetrator, he had bolted. He has been described as 25-35 years old, almost 6 feet (1.82 meters) tall, with black hair cut at shoulder-length and braided or coiffed into dreadlocks.
“But the car was still there, and then she finally got up and came to my husband as I was running out there in the street looking for the car, but he had already hit the corner. I started talking to her and that’s when she was telling us, ‘he stole me, he stole me,’” Covey adds.
“Last week an 11-year-old was approached by someone in a vehicle that pulled over, got out of their car and told her to get in, but she ran way,” Michele Gigante of the Sacramento Police Department notes.
The connection between the cases has not been confirmed yet, and there is no indication of the fact that the suspect's dark green or blue sedan was involved in the other incident.