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, according to the New York Post.
A SAVING SCREAM: A home security camera captured the alleged attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl from outside her home in Hamilton, OH, on Aug. 23.
Deric McPherson was taken into custody early on August 24 and charged with abduction and gross sexual imposition. pic.twitter.com/Al7o4iHKrv
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The little girl was taking out the trash when Deric McPherson, 33, grabbed her by the arm.
Fortunately, she managed to free herself and then run home to warn her parents.
“This man was walking and he touched me and he pulled me,” the girl told the show Good Morning America d’ABC.
“He let me go because I screamed,” she added.
Upon hearing the news, his father, Ricky Nash, jumped into his car and followed Mr McPherson.
“I was so relieved when he was handcuffed,” he said.
Deric McPherson was arrested on Wednesday and charged with kidnapping and gross sexual coercion.
He is currently being held at Butler County Jail in Ohio.