Posted on 08/22/2022 3:17:42 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
A missing 3-year-old girl was found in a north Houston motel room with a stranger, and now authorities are trying to figure out what happened to her during the 10 hours she was missing.
The stranger accused of taking the girl from her parents' apartment has now been charged.
Holman Hernandez, 50, is charged with aggravated kidnapping.
It was only thanks to a witness that investigators had any idea who they were looking for.
ABC13 was there as police surrounded a motel and arrested the suspect on Sunday.
Police said Hernandez -- the suspect at the center of the Amber Alert -- put up a little bit of a fight after he was found around 2 p.m. at a motel with the little girl, just minutes away from where she was abducted.
According to court documents, Hernandez lured the child into his vehicle, kidnapped her and took her to a motel, where authorities found them both in bed. Hernandez was allegedly only wearing boxers while the girl was in a shirt and a diaper.
Officers had to force entry into his motel room.
"Officers approached the room, knocked on the door. The suspect didn't answer, and because of the age of the kid, officers forced entry into the unit," Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. "Once they got in, the kid was observed inside with the suspect."
Several officers who were off were called in to help canvas the Northborough area after the girl's parents reported her missing from their apartment in the 12800 block of Northborough Drive, according to Finner.
They told police they went to sleep around 11 p.m. on Saturday and woke up around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to find their door wide open and their daughter missing.
As officers canvassed the neighborhood, a neighbor told them they spotted the girl with the suspect. Their testimony helped police determine exactly who they were looking for.
Police said they saw the suspect's car parked at the motel. Management told them the suspect checked into a room around 7:30 a.m.
Officers don't believe there is any connection between Hernandez and the family.
"I can't imagine what they are going through, with a few hours not knowing where their little baby girl is," Finner said. "It's just tough. But we're so glad, blessed. Thank God the baby is OK."
The little girl was immediately taken to a hospital by ambulance to get a medical exam.
I just hope that they beat the crap out of him.
A police shooting no one would complain about.
THREE year old??? Sick, just sick.
Demokkkommie run locale.
She is lucky to be alive. Thank God they found her.
Now kill him!
get a rope!
Where were the parents?
The parents put her to bed and then they went to sleep. Sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
Agree
If he confesses that he planned to sell her to human traffickers, he will be found dead in less than 24 hours. Guessing he will simply say he is sick and it was all his doing.
Illegal alien from where? El Salvadore maybe?
According to other reports, she was asleep in bed when her parents went to bed around 11:00 pm, and when the father checked on her around 5:00 am she was gone and their door was partly open. Apparently, after her parents went to bed, she was able to open the front door to their apartment and wandered upstairs where someone was having a party. When our oldest daughter was 3, she figured out how to open a deadbolt so I had to change the locks on our house to double cylinder deadbolts (you need a key to unlock the door inside or outside).
Holman Hernandez was at the party and was seen leaving with the girl. The other people at the party assumed that the girl was his until she was reported missing and the police started canvasing the neighborhood.
Per the article posted....
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They told police they went to sleep around 11 p.m. on
Saturday and woke up around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to find their
door wide open and their daughter missing.
“I’m swingin’ in the rain…”
Someone I know researches human trafficking and has spoken of its horrors in general terms.
I would go Ghenghis Khan on such vermin.
Blood Eagle.
This is literally where a 30 day RULE should apply and I believe one day will.
Within 10 days, the suspect is tried, and if convicted, there would be 10 days to appeal and if he loses his appeal he is executed in the town square by hanging within 10 days.
Those that make fun of this truncated process are ignorant. Saudi Arabia routinely tries, convicts, conducts appeals and executes within 45 days! I was there and have seen it happen. The case I saw was for drug violations. This case is much more heinous!
Kill him!
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