Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Girl Takes Photo of Potential Abductor

Police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with an attempted child enticement case in Denver.

Mohammed Al Hamdani, 39, was taken into custody after an 11-year-old girl snapped a photo of a man with her cell phone who was allegedly trying to abduct her at Bible Park in southeast Denver.

It was unclear from a Denver Police Department press release whether the photo led to the arrest of the man.

The 11-year-old girl told police a man approached her at the park and asked her to get in his car, MyFOXColorado.com reported.

She said no, snapped a picture of the man with her cell phone and ran away from him, according to the TV station.

The girl turned the cell phone image over to police, who distributed the man's photo to the public.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

3 Arrested in Holloway Case

ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said, citing new evidence in the case.

Joran van der Sloot of the Netherlands and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen leaving a bar with the three men on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to board a plane home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island. She was 18 at the time.

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Kelsey Smith Found Dead

You knew it was going to end this way.

Kelsey Smith's body was found at a lake in Grandview, Mo. after her abduction Saturday at an Oveland Park, Kan., Target parking lot.

Surveillance video shows her being forced into her car in the parking lot in much the same way that Meagan Holden was abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot -- as she opens her car door and begins to load packages, the attacker runs up behind her and forces her in.

Sadly, she's never seen alive again. Kelsey had just graduated from high school. A beautiful girl with a full life ahead of her, but snuffed out by an evil predator. Police have made an arrest in the case -- Edwin R. Hall, 26, of Olathe. Apparently, he was identified from the store's surveillance video.

It could have been different for Kelsey and it doesn't have to happen to you or one of your loved ones.

Being taken to what cops call a secondary crime scene almost always means you are not coming back. Learn to resist being forced into a car, truck or van at all costs.

The Fight Like a Girl module that is taught in the Women's Empowerment Series uses the DON'T GO concept to counter just this kind of attack. Parking lots are transiatory areas and offer good hunting grounds for predators.

DON'T GO!

If Kelsey had only known how to resist, this story could be different.

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