Pa. boy rescues little sister from abductor during S.C. vacation

[Marilyn. 340]

When 8-year-old Nathan Kuhns saw a man trying to abduct his 4-year-old sister during a family vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., he just did what came naturally.

"I screamed because of the fact someone was trying to pull her in the car and I went down there and beat the ####### out of this guy," the Pittsburgh-area boy told a local TV station.

South Carolina police credit Nathan's heroics Friday with rescuing his sister, Josie, who had run off while they were walking near a beach access. The suspect snatched the girl from behind and was trying to put her in his car when Nathan came running. The man fled and is still at large.

Nathan said he scratched the suspect to get some forensic evidence.

"It's called DNA and I saw it on 'NCIS' on TV," he said in an interview with KDKA.

Erin Kuhns related her son's story.

"He said, 'Mommy, I just kicked and I punched and I hit, and I just kept doing it,' " she said. The suspect "kept grabbing her, and he kept pulling her and kept trying to put her back in the car."

The family and police are hoping the DNA evidence will help catch the suspect.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/pa-boy-rescues-little-sister-from-abductor-during-sc-vacation/1?csp=obnetwork

[trillium13 84]

Wow!

Where were their parents?

[Marilyn. 340]

Wow!

Where were their parents?

On Friday, Kuhns took her three kids — Nathan, Josie and T.J., 6 — to lunch while her husband, John, 33, slept in their hotel room. John Kuhns had been up late the night before with Nathan, who had to be hospitalized briefly after a severe asthma attack, Erin Kuhns said.

As the family walked back to the hotel, T.J. "threw a tantrum" and sat down on the sidewalk after learning that he had missed a magic show, she said.

Josie then ran toward a beach access area "because she wanted to see if the ice cream truck was there," Erin Kuhns said.

She sent Nathan after his sister, who had rounded a corner and gone out of view, as she tried to calm T.J.

Seconds later, Erin Kuhns heard Nathan shrieking.

"It was a sound no mother should ever hear coming out of her child's mouth," she said.

She scooped T.J. off the ground and ran toward her other son.

"I got over there, and a dark-colored car was whizzing by," she said. "I turned and looked — Nathan and Josie were arm-in-arm on the ground. He was on top of her, hugging her. I went over and tried to pick up Nathan to see what had happened, and he wouldn't let go. He said, 'I'm not going to let him take her.' "

The kidnapping attempt occurred at 12:45 p.m. at a beach access area on 53rd Avenue, according to a Myrtle Beach police report.

The man grabbed Josie by her left arm and tried to pull her to a car when Nathan "tried to pull his sister away (and) then kicked the man and scratched him on the left arm, at which point the suspect let her go and got into his car and drove off," the police report states.

A hotel manager called police. While an investigator questioned witnesses, Nathan calmly informed the officer that he had the suspect's DNA under his fingernails, Erin Kuhns said.

"He said, 'I watch NCIS,' " she said. "The police officer started laughing."

The officer clipped some of Nathan's fingernails for evidence, the police report states.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_681534.html

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Nathan rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Teacher Mark 53]

Nice job by the kid!

I found the guy.