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Dad confronts kidnapper, saves 5-year-old daughter
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 11/7/14 | BRADY McCOMBS

Posted on 11/07/2014 2:02:15 PM PST by Kartographer

A Utah dad foiled an attempt to kidnap his young daughter from her bed early Friday after confronting a man carrying her across the lawn.

The 5-year-old girl wasn't hurt in the frightening experience, but the incident has evoked haunting echoes of when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched out of her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002. She was held captive for nine months before being found.

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I would have called the City Engineer's Office and ask them to send out someone to pick up a dead animal from my front yard.
1 posted on 11/07/2014 2:02:15 PM PST by Kartographer
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And a liberal would say “Oh dear me no. He wasn’t a threat. Just walking off with your daughter who wasn’t harmed”


2 posted on 11/07/2014 2:04:02 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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I wonder if this creep’s DNA (which they’ll obtain as part of the booking process, I believe) will end up matching DNA samples from any unsolved sex crimes.


3 posted on 11/07/2014 2:08:32 PM PST by House Atreides
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Shotgun slug in the ole cranium and there’d only be a call to sweep some trash from my driveway....


4 posted on 11/07/2014 2:08:41 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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The story makes it sound so matter of fact he handed her to the dad. I would have still killed him or at least the neighbors whose house he entered should have.


5 posted on 11/07/2014 2:08:56 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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Who in the world doesn’t lock their doors when they go to bed at night? Sandy UT has crime just like any other community. This family is lucky they got their daughter back.


6 posted on 11/07/2014 2:09:27 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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I would still be beating him.


7 posted on 11/07/2014 2:11:19 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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and the kidnapper is still alive?


8 posted on 11/07/2014 2:14:19 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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and the kidnapper is still alive?


9 posted on 11/07/2014 2:14:22 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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I would set him on fire................


10 posted on 11/07/2014 2:14:43 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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The kidnapper needs to be dead.


11 posted on 11/07/2014 2:15:52 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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I would have locked the door in the first place...but that’s just me.


12 posted on 11/07/2014 2:19:56 PM PST by stanne
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I make no bones about it, I`d have shot him dead in his verminous tracks. Blasted that animal down and killed him, right there and then.


13 posted on 11/07/2014 2:23:37 PM PST by nomad
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Hmmm can’t say exactly what I might have done given the situation. My oldest daughter was five almost 25 years ago. I was so much more creative and far less charitable back then and my temper, well let’s just not go there.


14 posted on 11/07/2014 2:24:03 PM PST by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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maybe the story doesn’t reveal enough, but it seems the dad didn’t have the typical reaction.

Dad’s reaction:

“Excuse me kind sir, but where are you going with my daughter? It is after her bedtime”

A normal dad’s reaction would begin with lodging a screwdriver deep into this stranger’s eye socket.


15 posted on 11/07/2014 2:27:06 PM PST by MNDude
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Philosophically, I believe prisons should be a safe place for prisoners. We have a moral obligation to treat prisoners in a humane manner, but there are a growing number of exceptions to that general belief. Our courts are failing decent people, and it would not surprise me if this evil man got a trivial sentence. He’s an “unarmed gentle giant” in the eyes of the far left fringe. When it comes to criminals who pose an ongoing threat to society, if the courts refuse to protect the innocent, I’m okay with prison justice. I would not vote to convict a prisoner who decided the world was better off without a man who would kidnap a very young girl.

As for the parents, I’m not sure why their doors were unlocked. I am afraid that I might know why the father didn’t have a gun/sledgehammer/chainsaw/crossbow when he confronted a man who was endangering his child, and it’s connected to why so many Mormons support Harry Reid. It’s a shame too. Another little girl may go through the same trauma or far worse because this father is a sissy.


16 posted on 11/07/2014 2:30:09 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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and the kidnapper is still alive?

I know, right?

I'd still be rolling my car back and forth over what used to be the bastard's body.

17 posted on 11/07/2014 2:31:13 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Viking Bearded Axe.


18 posted on 11/07/2014 2:36:59 PM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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I wonder if this creep’s DNA (which they’ll obtain as part of the booking process, I believe) will end up matching DNA samples from any unsolved sex crimes.

Very possibly; the guy looks old enough to have been at this for a while, and confidence in past incidents may have made him fairly brazen. Every time I read of something like this in that part of the country I think of Jonbenet Ramsey.

19 posted on 11/07/2014 2:42:03 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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From the article:

“He (the father) ran outside and confronted the man, asking him what he was doing and demanding that he give back his little girl.”

The father asked the man what he was doing? I suppose the father was still half asleep, but really?


20 posted on 11/07/2014 2:45:29 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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