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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNEW VIDEO: When a man snatched a 5-year-old boy off a Queens sidewalk, his brave mom jumped into act
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According to the NYPD, it happened around 8 p.m. in Richmond Hill, near the corner of Hillside and Myrtle avenues.
Surveillance footage shows one man hop out of a maroon car, grab the child and quickly put the boy in the back seat of the vehicle. All the while, a second man sat in the front passenger seat of the car.
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When the unidentified man got back in the drivers seat, the boys mother, 45, rushed to the passenger side of the car and was able to pull her son to safety through the front passenger window, authorities said.
Two other children who were with the mother and son can be seen in the video bravely rushing to the car to help save the boy. It was not immediately clear if they are related to the victim.
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/queens/watch-mom-pulls-son-car-window-queens-kidnapping-attempt/
Haggard Celine
(16,847 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,058 posts)clean-cut guy--you would never notice him until he became a predator.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Stop plunking down donuts.
jimfields33
(15,902 posts)time of the incident.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They were all wonderful.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)brush
(53,815 posts)I wonder if there's more to the story, like a former relationship, a family tie somehow.
malaise
(269,123 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,181 posts)She probably saved her kid's life.
Disaffected
(4,559 posts)Or maybe someone related to the father?
JudyM
(29,260 posts)that was my impression too. If they were related, I would expect the mother would have identified him right away and such would likely been reported.
Quakerfriend
(5,451 posts)Did he pay the perp to snatch a kid for him ?.
ck4829
(35,079 posts)Probably the same guy walking with him at 30 seconds in.
wryter2000
(46,076 posts)There were people in the street who almost looked as if they'd run after his car.
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)Brave mom!
SpankMe
(2,963 posts)But this looks more like crime relating to a custody dispute than a trafficking thing. At least, I hope it is. If it's an attempt to capture a victim for some sort of trafficking, that's too much for me to bear.