someone tried to abduct my 10 year old daughter today

[~~~water~~~ 0]

I bet your still freaking out... this is sooo frightening!!

[doodlebugg 10]

I have not had a goodnight sleep in two days because 1) she's in my bed now and 2) she wakes me up every 1/2 hour to tell me to put my arm around her.

[~*Dorothy*~ 2]

I have not had a goodnight sleep in two days because 1) she's in my bed now and 2) she wakes me up every 1/2 hour to tell me to put my arm around her.

This is a truly scary story - I had chills reading it but I so am glad that your little one did the right thing...

D.

[Nutty 2]

I was online working and reading vj and I got a call from the police saying that they are with my 10 yr old. All blood rushed from my face and I dropped the phone and went over to the house they were at which is approx 8 houses down from mine. she walked home with her bf as she always does on Fridays and when her friend couldn't play she walked home to my house. She was about 6 houses away when a woman in a minivan with very dark windows pulled over and asked if she wanted a ride. She said no thank you and the woman insisted and opened the car door and said c'mon it's too cold to walk get in the car. My daughter turned around and ran as fast as she could to a woman's house that she knows two doors down from the spot she was and the woman called the police and made her some hot cocoa. I was supposed to have a dentist appt but it got cancelled so she didn't call me. I just got home. she's at a party now...it was her biggest worry...getting to her christmas party. I've had a fkg bad night and I'm now shaking. She's getting picked up by her dad so I can't even be with her tonight. Please hug your kids before you go to bed tonight and don't let them walk anywhere alone.

That is sooo frightening! Good thing you're daughter knew what to do! You taught her well!

I had a similiar experience when I was 13. A man kept cruising the block as I was walking home. He offered me a ride and I refused and said, "I live right here." I then went the house I was in front of and knocked and told them I needed to "jump their back fence." It never occured to me to say I was being followed by a man in a car. They let me in and I jumped their fence to get to our neighbors back yard. But my dress got caught on the fence and I was dangling there.

But I got pulled off by the neighbors and ran home.

[sweet_peach 0]

what's really freaky is that this is the third time something like this has happened in my town. I just don't get it. It's a teeny tiny town and nothing like this has ever happened before and then wham in the past two years we've gotten fliers home from school saying that someone was abducted or someone attempted to abduct a child. The last time was a few months ago. My daughter is in fifth grade and was adamant about not going to after school care since her sister stopped going in fifth grade so I said ok but as soon as we got the flier I put her back in except on Fridays which is the day I work from home. I would normally pick her up too but I was supposed to be at the dentist and she lost her cellphone so I let her walk home with her best friend. Her best friend called the house a few hours ago crying saying it's all her fault. The detective handling the case has been great. He keeps calling me every hour to see how I'm doing. I'm not doing good. I'm typing through tears here. I have been so freakin' calm the whole night but when I finally called my husband I fell totally apart. If anything happened to my baby I don't know what I would do. She's my baby and is so very trusting and innocent. Quite frankly I'm shocked that she didn't go in the woman's car. I'm so proud of her. Her little legs were shaking most of the time we were at the police station.

I am so happy she had the right train of through to run and not get in the car. It’s so crazy that anyone would want to do something to a child. If this woman did have bad intent for your daughter then I hope she gets strung up by her toe nails and tarred. People like that make me sick.