A Winnipeg mother is shaken after an unknown man tried to pick her five-year-old son up from his kindergarten class.
“I’m terrified. I have so many emotions going through my mind,” said Melissa, who has kept her son, Hunter, home from Faraday School since the incident last Thursday.
CBC News is not using her last name to protect her child’s identity.
“I don’t feel like my boy is safe at school right now.”
Just as disturbing is that the stranger seems to know the family. He asked for Hunter by name and scurried away when he saw the boy’s father show up, according to Melissa. She said the man was caught on the school’s video surveillance system.
“Had we been a few more minutes late, [Hunter] would have been gone,” Melissa said.
‘What would have happened with my boy?’
She said the video is too grainy to get a clear view of the suspect’s face, but the family doesn’t recognize the man.
“If dad wasn’t there, what would have happened with my boy? He would have been put it in someone else’s hands who I possibly don’t even know and probably never even see him again.”
Winnipeg Police say they’re looking into the incident, but couldn’t provide much information about the case.
“There was a report of a suspicious male who attempted to pick up a student at the school. We had our school resource officer speak with the complainant,” an emailed statement from the police service said.
“We continue to investigate.”
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