Security camera footage released this week shows the moment a 6-year-old girl escapes her attacker as he tries to abduct her outside her home in Ohio, US. The New York Post.
Derrick McPherson, 33, holds the little girl by the hand as she takes out the trash.
Luckily, she managed to free herself and ran home to warn her parents.
“This guy was walking and he touched me and he pulled me,” the girl said on the show Good morning America From ABC.
“He let me go because I screamed,” she added.
On hearing the news, his father, Ricky Nash, jumped into his car and followed Mr McPherson.
“I was very relieved when he was handcuffed,” he said.
Derrick McPherson was arrested Wednesday and charged with kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault.
He is currently in the Butler County Jail in Ohio.
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