The authorities have in custody the suspect of trying to kidnap a three-year-old girl when the minor was walking with her grandmother in the Bronx on Monday, police said. Thanks to a group of good Samaritans the heinous crime was avoided.
The New York Police identified the alleged kidnapper as Santiago Salcedo, 27, who approached the 65-year-old grandmother, who was with the girl and her two grandchildren, around 1:20 p.m. Monday on the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Baisley Avenue in Schuylerville, The Bronx.
According to reports, Salcedo wrapped the girl in a duvet, picked her up and tried to flee with her, but the grandmother’s screams alerted pedestrians in the area, who confronted the man. Being surrounded, the suspect left the girl and escaped on a skateboard.
The minor was examined by paramedics at the scene and is safe and sound.
“A man came, he crosses the street, At that moment he took the girl as if she were a toy,” said Fermín Placero, a witness to the incident.
Police detained Salcedo later Monday. He is charged with kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, illegal detention and endangering the well-being of a child. The suspect will face a judge in the Bronx Criminal Court, but when is unknown.
The case is reminiscent of July when a man tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy who was walking with his mother and brothers near Myrtle and Hillside avenues in Richmond Hill, Queens. In the surveillance videos, it is observed how the subject takes the child from his family and takes him inside a vehicle, but the mother and his brothers manage to get him out of the window while begging for help.
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