Posted on 03/29/2024 7:55:06 PM PDT by Morgana
This is the terrifying moment a 38-year-old man attempted to kidnap an eight-year-old California boy in front of the child's parents during a family celebration.
The ordeal took place around 8pm on March 22 when the boy's parents were celebrating the opening of their new deli, Newport Quick Stop Liquor and Deli.
A strange man, now named as Christopher Aaron Higginbotham, tried to abduct their son while he was playing on the sidewalk.
The boy's father, Adrian Villanueva told local CBS8 News that his family was enjoying dinner on the patio when he saw a man enter his store three different times on the same night, who was acting erratically.
The third time, Villanueva said he 'grabbed my kid right here. He just grabbed him and pulled him down. And he said, 'this my son, this is my son,' he recalled.
The shocked father said: 'I pushed him. I said, 'no, he is not your son,' and then I tried to get him out. And that's when he grabbed my kid, and he started running away through the street,' he recalled.
Security guards by some nearby businesses and community members saw what was happening and intervened. They were able to restrain the man until police arrived.
The man was identified as Higginbotham, 38. He was arrested for false imprisonment and battery, San Diego Police Department PIO Lt. Dan Meyer told DailyMail.com.
Meyer said Higginbotham was arrested at 9.30am on March 27 at 1950 Abbott Street in Ocean Beach by Western Beach Team officers.
He was booked for false imprisonment and battery, and said the case is still under active investigation.
It was later revealed that Higginbotham was a wanted fugitive, and had a history of felony convictions involving assault with a deadly weapon, according to a 2018 Crime Stoppers.
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Mentally ill abound in the grand old USA . Re-open insane asylums .
It used to be one of my neighborhood stores.
And start coming down hard on criminals.
Did they kill him for trying to take the child?
Mental illness is not a reason/excuse for criminal acivity as it’s being promoted these days. Most need to be in jail or executed.
Yea but if this guy and others like him were in a nervous hospital to start with odds are they would not do these sort of crimes.
“They were able to restrain the man until police arrived”
And therein lies the problem. We as a society have created a system that protects the criminal from the citizen.
There was a time not long ago that you wouldn’t read such a story, not because creeps like this didn’t exist but because they were culled from the herd.
Kidnapping a child is an act of pedophilia. There is no cure for something that is so deeply engrained in a person. No treatment or punishment can ever correct it.
The only cure is to either put the person to death or lock them in a cell and to throw away the key. Anything less endangers another innocent child.
Father is worthless. Absolutely pathetic.
Dat last name.🤣
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