A house of worship in Brooklyn was the scene of an attempted kidnapping, according to police, but the child's mother stepped in at the right time to prevent the situation from becoming far worse
A house of worship in Brooklyn was the scene of an attempted kidnapping, according to police, but the child's mother stepped in at the right time to prevent the situation from becoming far worse.
The incident occurred Wednesday morning at a synagogue in Gravesend. Police said a man walked in and tried to pull a young boy right out of the building. Rabbi Aron Lankry of the Hesed Le Avraham Synagogue replayed what happened when a stranger approached the 9-year-old boy this morning. “I was inside the synagogue it took place right here by the entrance,” Lankry said. “He came over here, and started talking to the child…When the kid didn’t listen, he grabbed him by the arm and started to walk this way towards the exit.”That's when the boy's mother confronted the man who was steps away from walking out of the synagogue with her son. Law enforcement sources tell News 4 the suspect is a member of the Jewish community and is known to police.
“The mother asked, ‘Do you know this boy?’ He said no. Mom said, ‘What are you doing?’ And then he just ran,” said Lankry.
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