Police
are stepping up patrol during the hours children walk to and from school
after a local teen reported a man possibly tried to abduct her.
On Thursday, a 15-year-old girl was walking her dog near her Orinda home at about 7:45 p.m. when a man pulled up alongside her in a black, older model four-door sedan, Orinda police Sgt. Neil Rafanan said. He did not give a street name.
The man allegedly asked the girl where she was going. When she said she was walking home, he told her to get in his car, Rafanan said.
The girl refused and the man got out of the car and grabbed her, Rafanan said. The girl fought her way free and fled, he said. She was not harmed and did not initially report to police that she'd been grabbed.
New York
Police in Port Jervis and the Town of Newburgh are looking into two separate kidnapping attempts on young girls.
In the first, in Port Jervis, a man in a red minivan with New Jersey plates tried to lure a middle-school girl in as she walked home from school Thursday, according to the school district's website.
She was walking on Pennsylvania Avenue around 2:15 p.m. when the man stopped her and reportedly asked her several times if she wanted a ride.
The school district sent a letter home with students about the incident on Friday, and district officials urge parents to talk about it with their kids and review safety tips.
In the Town of Newburgh, near the Montgomery town line around 5 p.m. Friday, a man grabbed a 5-year-old girl from behind.
But her sister helped her get away from him.
Then, he took off in a vehicle, possibly a dark-colored pickup, headed east on Route 17K.
The man was described as thin, white and in his 40s with short dark hair, a white T-shirt and brown shorts.
St. Joseph, MO
Police are investigating what they think was an abduction attempt of a 10-year-old working safety patrol near an elementary school.
The child said someone approached the location he was patrolling just before 9 a.m. Tuesday near South 29th and Duncan streets and told him to get in their vehicle.
The child grabbed another student and went toward Parkway Elementary to tell a teacher.
Spencer, IA
Police in Spencer, Iowa, want parents to keep an eye on their kids after an attempted abduction from a local school.
It happened shortly before one o'clock when-- police say-- a man, driving a mini-van, pulled up to Lincoln Elementary during recess, rolled his window down, and asked two fifth grade students to, "come here."
The two students refused, and at the same time two staff members saw what was going on, brought the students inside and called police. The van then drove off.
Janesville, WI
A 12-year-old girl was grabbed by a man Tuesday morning as she walked on a Janesville street, but the man fled when a car drove past, Janesville police reported.
The incident on Elizabeth Street was reported at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, according to a police news release.
The girl told police she was grabbed from behind by the suspect.
Detroit, MI
Detroit police and Detroit Public Schools are investigating the reported sexual assault of a 13-year-old who said he was abducted from Wayne Elementary School on Detroit’s east side Wednesday afternoon.
The incident is being investigated by the department's sex crimes unit, according to a statement this morning. DPS Spokesman Steve Wasko said the district's police investigators are examining footage from surveillance cameras.
The student was found by a resident on Lakepointe about 2 p.m. The resident, Lawrence Snider, said the child was wearing only underwear and a shirt. His hands were taped behind his back, he said.
Boynton Beach, FL
The mother of a Palm Beach County kindergartner at Galaxy Elementary says a school bus mix-up left her child in a stranger's hands.
"I was nervous about the bus to begin with, and I guess I should have listened to myself," said Melissa Berthiaume of Boynton Beach.
She says she was waiting at the usual afternoon drop off point, at the intersection of Winfield Road and Laurence Road in Boynton Beach, and when Aiden's bus pulled up, he wasn't on it.
"The bus driver comes over here, I say who I'm looking for, I say Aiden, he described him, he says,
Oh, lady over there just picked him up she said that she was his mother, " said Aiden's mom.
Berthiaume says that the bus driver went back, brought Aiden to her minutes later, saying Aiden was with a different woman who stopped Aiden from going with the supposed phony mom.
Fountain, CO
It was a close call for two children in Fountain Thursday, each who managed to narrowly escape a potential abduction in separate incidents.
In one case near Fountain Middle School off Highway 85/87, a 12-year-old was walking home from school when a strange truck began following him. When the boy heard the tires creeping up behind him, he grabbed his cell phone and texted his mom. The driver suddenly sped off.
In the second incident, around 4 p.m. on Fountain-Mesa Road near Mesa Ridge Parkway, the suspect actually stopped his car and told the child walking nearby to get in.
The child was able to run away.
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