Police seek two men in fumbled kidnapping attempt of 4-year-old in Port St. Lucie
September 26th, 2009 by Michael LaForgiaPORT ST. LUCIE — Two men on Friday afternoon tried to lure a 4-year-old girl into a pickup near Northwest Prima Vista and Northwest Bayshore boulevards, police said.
About 5:30 p.m., the men pulled up to 452 Southwest Carmelite Drive in a gold Chevrolet Silverado truck and called out to the 4-year-old, according to a Port St. Lucie police statement circulated this morning.
The girl’s mother, who was in the garage, looked up and saw one of the men open the door and lean out of the cab.
“Baby girl, come here,” she heard him say, the statement said.
The woman yelled at her daughter and the truck drove off, heading south on Carmelite Drive.
Anyone with information can call detective Brinton Black at (772) 871-5000.
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September 26th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Possibly he was a concerned person whom thought the child was in danger of getting into the street and getting ran over. Who knows. Maby he was only going to make sure the child was OK. Dont alway jump to conclusions that it was a person trying to do that child harm. There are way was more good people in this world than bad people.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
It’s the bad ones you have to worry about. How freaking brazen. Thank the Gods that the mother was right there. It takes two seconds…and they’re GONE! And you hear about the police finding a body in a canal two days later.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Thank god that the mother was there so that the kid did not get ran over by a car. I doubt the two adults were trying to kidnap the kid
September 26th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
To all those who are convinced that these two adults were merely looking out for the child’s wellbeing & not trying to abduct her, please ask yourselves the following: If it were you in that truck, stopping to ensure the child’s safety would you instantly drive off when the mother made her presence known without stating your concern to her? Personally, I would never approach someone else’s child out of concern & then not explain that concern to the parent. Doing so would just foster fear in the neighborhood.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
to comments 1 and 3 - Are you two kidding me? Do you really believe that they were just nice guys?
Those guys were trying to kidnap her. He opened the door and asked her to “come here”. If you’re trying to get someone out of the street, you don’t need to open the door, but you DO if you’re trying to snatch someone. They took off when the mother yelled - if they were trying to help, they would have explained. They ran to try to keep her from being able to identify them.
And the article does not say the kid was in the street.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
When it comes to a child being abducted, there are seldom second chances. Could it have been innocent? Sure. Chances are it wasn’t innocent or they wouldn’t have left so abruptly..Don’t be naive in thinking they were trying to do no harm, clearly they were up to no good.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Im beginning to think that the first responder of this article may have been one of the guys in the truck! Are you joking that they were trying to help? Ur right, they were trying to help themselves kidnap a child. Be real.
September 26th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
My feelings are the same as #7. Who else would say something like that other than the guys in the truck!??!?
September 26th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
well done mom, every mom should not keep any child out of sight anytime anymoment, drugged heads are all over all the time.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Listen to me, this is crazy, you must understand that, coulda shoulda woulda will not do. Look at this history. More than 65 percent of the victims of non-family child abduction are girls (Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children, October 2002)
In 46 percent of non-family abductions, the child was sexually assaulted. In 31 percent of the cases the child was physically assaulted. In 40 percent of the cases, the perpetrator used a weapon (Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children, October 2002)
Of abducted children who are ultimately murdered, 74 percent are dead within three hours of the abduction (State of Washington’s Office of the Attorney General; National Center of Missing and Exploited Children)
Of non-family abductions, 32 percent take place on a street or in a car and 25 percent take place in a park or wooded area. The percentage of abducted children taken to another location totals 75 percent. These locations include: vehicle (45 percent), perpetrator’s home (28 percent), building (13 percent) (Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children, October 2002)
look its not okay. And if the y were trying to help then they wouldnt have run. I say that we educate ourselves and hop that we are doing all that we can to be safe. These guys are nut. LoL they were trying to get her out the road? okay hmm.. right thats gr8, do me a favor don’t have kids.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
seeing as how, shes a young girl, of course she would’ve gone into the trust because she’s little, and she probably doesn’t know whats wrong, and whats right! i am thankful that the mom was there, so she can be the first one to report what happen, becase she was the witness!