Police in Florida are investigating the attempted abduction of a 6-year-old girl on Mother’s Day.
According to a news release from the Daytona Beach Police Department, the girl was walking home from church hand-in-hand with her mother when an unknown suspect tried to separate them.
“The unknown suspect was unable to remove the child from the mother’s grip and subsequently ran away,” the release states about the events which took place as the mom and daughter walked home from Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Daytona Beach.
Neither the mom nor the child were injured in the incident, police added.
“My heart just dropped, and it’s almost like I just went into tunnel vision,” the young girl’s father, Kelly Granger, told WFTV Orlando, adding that the suspect “tried to karate chop them while they were holding hands.”
“I wanted to just crawl out of my skin and just go after this individual,” he continued.
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