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| Heroic 8-Year-Old Boy Saves His 4-Year-Old Sister From Abductor |
| 2010-05-18 |
| Police in Myrtle Beach, S.C., credit the quick actions of a caring brother for saving a young girl from an attempted abduction. Police are looking for the man who tried to abduct a 4-year-old girl vacationing from Pittsburgh. The girl's mother, Erin Kuhns, of Whitehall, told Channel 4 Action News that on Friday, she was walking near the beach with her three children when her daughter, Josie, ran off. Kuhns said she then told her son, Nathan, to run after the child. When the 8-year-old boy caught up with his sister, Nathan said he saw a man trying to drag the girl into his car. "I screamed because of the fact someone was trying to pull her in the car and I went down there and beat the crap out of this guy," Nathan said of the rescue. According to Erin Kuhns, the boy was able to wrestle his sister away from the would-be abductor. "[Nathan] said, 'Mommy, I just kicked and I punched and I hit, and I just kept doing it,'" Kuhns told Channel 4 Action News' Shannon Perrine Sunday. "[The man] kept grabbing her, and he kept pulling her and kept trying to put her back in the car." Nathan Kuhns was able to provide DNA evidence to police, because he scratched the man so severely. Neither child was injured in the attempted abduction. Myrtle Beach police have not made any arrests. But when some police agency does, they are going to arrest the hell out of him. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 HAIL to the little hero, he should be honored by the local police in both Myrtle Beach and his hometown. He should be set forth as an example to his peers of how to deal with cowards like his sister's would be kidnapper. |
| Posted by: Keeney 2010-05-18 15:39 |
| #2 There was nobody around who thought it odd that a man was dragging a little girl into a car while another child was trying to stop him? Or at least nobody who was willing to ask what was going on? It's not like this was the streets of Brooklyn. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-05-18 07:49 |
| #1 Vigilante justice. He should have stood by and let the police handle it. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-18 06:57 |