Posted on 09/05/2001 4:31:22 PM PDT by KirklandJunction
Police on hunt for man who abducted girl at Phoenix school
Christina Leonard
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 05, 2001 01:50:00
Phoenix police are searching for a man suspected of snatching a 10-year-old girl while she was walking on her school grounds Tuesday morning.
Police believe the man attacked the child at Solano School, at 15th and Missouri avenues, about 10 a.m. He dragged her to a car parked in the west parking lot and took her to an apartment complex about a mile and a half away, said Detective Tony Morales, a police spokesman.
The girl was forced inside the apartment for an hour-and-a-half to two hours, but escaped when the man became distracted, Morales said. The girl was able to call her mother for help, and police launched the investigation.
The man is described as a White or light-skinned Hispanic male, 20 to 25, 5 foot 10, 180 pounds with short spike hair with blond tips. He has blue eyes and freckles and walks with a noticeable limp, Morales said.
Morales said he was driving a white Nissan Maxima with tan interior.
The girl was not injured.
Anybody with information is urged to call the crimes against children unit at (602) 534-3200.
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That does seem awfully strange, that there were no witnesses, or at least it seems to imply that.
If this slob has any buddies, they don't want the witnesses to be in a bullseye.
This also makes sense, Kirk. Thanks.
We had a guy in this area who was trying to snatch kids. he finally succeeded with a young girl playing near a bridge a block from her home. He took her out in the country,raped her, then swathed her in duct tape (over her eyes, mouth, around her hands and feet), covered her with leaves and left her for dead.
The girl managed to get free and run to a house nearby. She was able to give a detailed description of her rapist--and his car. When the guy's wife spotted the picture, she said, "it looks a lot like you," and then questioned him about his whereabouts. He took off, but was found a few days later. He was a prison guard with his home computer filled with child porn.
When the DNA came back with a match, he committed suicide a day or two later.
It's no great loss.
Thanks for the info.
In many troubled schools, kids are allowed to walk around unhindered as long as they don't cause trouble. I used to substitute teach in one of those schools.
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