Current Events > Woman prevents little girl's kidnapping by pretending to be her own mother.

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A quick-thinking mother became a hero earlier this week when she pretended to be the mother of someone else: a little girl who was in the middle of a possible kidnapping.

The school girl, 12-year-old Amy Martinez, had been walking to class at Lathrop Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California on Wednesday when a woman who she described as homeless looking "barefoot" and "dirty" caught her up in a bear hug and started pulling her away from the school building.

Amy tried to get away from the intruding stranger, but she was too small to resist the grown womans strength. She continued to flail her arms around and yell at the woman until the youngster caught the attention of a woman who had just finished dropping her own child off at school.

The good Samaritan saw Amys movements and knew that something wasnt right. She then confronted the kidnapper, said that she was Amys mother, and demanded that she be released.

Amys rescuer then took her to school and called the police. The 12-year-old says that she considers the anonymous woman to be her hero.


Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/woman-prevents-girls-kidnapping-pretending-mother/



I appreciate the womans efforts to save the girl but I don't fully understand why he she had to pretend to be the girls mom and not just say "Leave that kid alone you crazy psyho."
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Because then the homeless lady says she's the mother and it causes all sorts of confusion. The fact that homeless lady didn't counter by saying she was the actual mother pretty much settles the dispute. Girl was lucky as hell and props to that woman pretending to be the mother.
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Rainbow_Dashing posted...

Because then the homeless lady says she's the mother and it causes all sorts of confusion. The fact that homeless lady didn't counter by saying she was the actual mother pretty much settles the dispute. Girl was lucky as hell and props to that woman pretending to be the mother.

Or she could just say "No you're blatantly not her mother."
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Or she could just say "No you're blatantly not her mother."

how sheltered are you
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