A 7-year-old boy was walking home from school when a mentally disabled man tried abducting him. Dashboard camera footage of the incident, which happened in broad daylight in Johor, was uploaded on UtusanTV’s TikTok handle on May 12.
The camera captured a man in a grey shirt walking past the vehicle while holding tightly onto a child in uniform. Another man, presumably the car passenger, was heard shouting loudly at the man with the boy. The suspect soon hurried his pace at the same time the cam car tried getting closer.
Appearing to flee the scene, a group of passersby near a McDonald’s outlet ran towards the man while shouting and gesturing at him to ask what he was doing. The Star reported that the man tried abducting the child, who was on his way home from religious school.
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Johor police received a call about the incident on Wednesday (May 11) at around 11:30 am.
“The suspect, in his 20s, was apprehended by bystanders at the scene after he tried to abduct a seven-year-old boy,” said Johor police chief Comm Datuk Kamarul Zaman Mamat.”
“A team of police personnel on patrol nearby went to the scene immediately and arrested the suspect,” he noted.
The suspect tried to convince the boy that he could send him back home using his motorcycle, but the child refused to follow him, said the police chief.
He noted that the police also seized a motorcycle used by the suspect. Investigations showed that the man owned a disabled person card, stating he is a patient, but is also wanted by the police for a drug offence.
Comm Kamarul Zaman urged parents to monitor their children closely, particularly their whereabouts, to avoid such kidnapping attempts. /TISG
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