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‘Hero’ 11-Year-Old Girl Speaks Out After Fighting Off Brazen Attempted Kidnapper Who Was ‘Caught Blue-Handed’ [Pensacola, FL]
https://lawandcrime.com ^ | May 20th, 2021, 10:31 am | MATT NAHAM

Posted on 05/20/2021 9:49:57 AM PDT by Red Badger

A shocking video from Tuesday showed an 11-year-old girl bravely fighting off a man who was trying to kidnap her at a school bus stop in Escambia County, Florida. Now Alyssa Bonal is speaking out about what was going through her mind at the time and what she remembered about the suspect, identified as 30-year-old Jared Paul Stanga.

“What is he going to do with me? Where is he going to […] where am I going to be at? What is my family going to think?” Alyssa recalled thinking, telling WKRG that she was “scared” and “anxious.” But Alyssa had her thinking cap on at the time and made sure that the suspect was “caught blue-handed,” as her mother Amber Bonal put it. Alyssa was playing with a blue slime toy when the suspect attempted to drag her into his vehicle.

“He had a knife in his hand. I tried running off but he grabbed me. He took me with his arm and I was able to get him down to the ground and I was able to get away,” Alyssa said. But the blue slime ended up playing a role in Stanga’s arrest. He allegedly had blue slime all over his arms when he was caught. Apparently, the girl’s binge-watching of the TV show Law & Order: SVU gave her the idea to leave some evidence behind.

“Her first words were, ‘Somebody tried to kidnap me. He grabbed me by my throat and he had a knife.’ She said she was able to kick and she tripped him and freed herself,” Amber Bonal said in an interview with the Pensacola News Journal. “She said, ‘Mom, I had to leave some sort of evidence behind, like on Law & Order SVU.’ We’ve watched probably every episode on Hulu. She’s a smart cookie, she thinks on her toes. She got that slime everywhere.”

Amber Bonal also told the News Journal that she recently and seemingly out of nowhere had a conversation with her daughter about what to do in a situation like this.

“Ironically, on Sunday, the neighbor’s little girl was over at our house, and I don’t know how or why it got brought up but I was telling them that if anyone ever tried to abduct you, you kick and scream and bite and yell,” the mother said. “I don’t care if they have a knife or a gun, you get away and you find the first open door, and she said that that was what was going through her head when the man grabbed her.”

Stanga allegedly had a knife; Alyssa could be seen kicking, pushing, and punching her attacker before he gave up a drove away. Then Alyssa found the first open door nearby. It was her neighbor Douglass Rudolph’s home.

“She comes running around the corner toward me hollering my name and some guy was trying to get her,” Rudolph told WKRG.

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said at a press conference on Tuesday that Alyssa is his “hero.”

“My message to her is that she’s my hero,” he said. “My message is that she did not give up. She did the right thing. She fought, and she fought, and she fought, and she never gave up.”

“It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what [Stanga’s] intentions were, but they were not good,” the sheriff said. “So a life was saved.”

Records show that Stanga was booked in the Escambia County Jail on Tuesday night and faces three charges: attempted kidnapping of a child under 13, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, and battery. His bond has been set at $1,505,000.

Watch Alyssa Bonal’s interview with WKRG below:

VIDEO AT LINK............................


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KEYWORDS: abduction; blueslime; fight; kidnap; kidnapping; stanga
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To: Sacajaweau

It was a home security system...................


21 posted on 05/20/2021 11:53:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: A Navy Vet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4sJfNkimg


22 posted on 05/20/2021 11:57:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Sacajaweau

the picture doesn’t move or shake - most likely a fixed camera


23 posted on 05/20/2021 12:03:29 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks....It was instrumental in getting info on the van.


24 posted on 05/20/2021 12:18:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: A Navy Vet

Really? Why is that?


25 posted on 05/20/2021 12:31:47 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: PGR88

30 years too late................


26 posted on 05/20/2021 12:33:09 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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To: Chainmail

What gear were you in?


27 posted on 05/20/2021 12:34:54 PM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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To: Osage Orange

What gear? What are you talking about?


28 posted on 05/20/2021 12:35:56 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Osage Orange

typo

gear = girl


29 posted on 05/20/2021 12:59:42 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Chainmail

I apologize. I thought you were miss-quoting from the article incident. Sorry to hear you had a bad incident with the LEO.


30 posted on 05/20/2021 1:26:58 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: A Navy Vet
No sweat, Buddy..

My daughter has had long-term effects from that near miss. Thank God she had the instincts - and the legs - to get away from him.

Unfortunately for that cop, I was a member of the local community-police board and had the Chief's home phone number. Don't know if that cop got more than counseling, but maybe he'll be a bit more sympathetic to a young lady who had a near miss with a pervert.

31 posted on 05/20/2021 1:36:12 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Red Badger

Is it too late to patent dye packets for kids? If they can put dye packets into money stolen from a bank, how about dye packets for children? It could have a unique chemical formula for each kid. The trick would be the release mechanism: change in GPS coordinates, removal of clothing, screaming — or some combination.


32 posted on 05/20/2021 7:44:57 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Awaiting the return of the king -- and I don't mean Elvis.)
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To: PGR88

“Time to bring back public hangings”

Or something.

Maybe televise the posting of bond?

I mean — hey — it’s damned hard to get a good sight picture through those tine jailhouse windows.


33 posted on 05/22/2021 11:25:48 PM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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