ARRESTED! - 2 Year Old Boy Saves 10 Year Old Sister From Attack By Screaming!

DiamondSmiles · #11 ● 07-19-2012, 04:35 PM

Yes, folks! That's our mayor!

Philadelphia police announced today they had arrested a suspect in an attempted child abduction that was caught on tape, and that the suspect had turned himself in because he couldn't, "walk, talk or breathe", after the video aired yesterday on local media and ABC News. Police led Figueroa-***** out of the Special Victims Unit in handcuffs early Thursday afternoon. He wore a Sesame Street T-shirt with Elmo and Cookie Monster on it that says, "Every Day I'm Shufflin'".

Carlos Figueroa-***** of Philadelphia will be charged with attempted kidnapping, indecent assault and unlawful restraint among other crimes in connection with a Tuesday incident in which a 10-year-old girl was attacked on a South Philadelphia street. He has not yet entered a plea.

Capt. John Darby of the Special Victims Unit said that Figueroa-***** had turned himself in at midnight Wednesday after local media and the ABC News network aired the video Wednesday evening. "He felt that he could not walk, talk or breathe with that out there on the street. He made himself available to us last night."

*You can skip the ***** jokes! The t is silent. It's a short a and a long o with the acccent on the o.*

Mayor Michael Nutter credited the police, public and the media for helping pressure the suspect to come forward. According to police, tips began pouring in as soon as the video was made public.

As seen in the video, a 10-year-old girl and her 2-year-old brother were walking back from buying sweets in South Philadelphia on Tuesday when a man suddenly came from behind and tried to make off with the terrified girl.

He placed his hand over her mouth lifted her from the ground and, as the girl's brother screamed, the man stumbled as he tried to drag the girl towards his car. After struggling for a brief period, the man eventually gave up and fled the scene.

Carlos Figueroa-*****, 34, has been arrested for Carlos Figueroa-***** has been arrested for allegedly trying to abduct a 10-year-old girl in South Philadelphia.

Capt. Darby said the victim had been a "real trooper since the incident," and had credited her little brother's scream with saving her.

"It's a sick individual to do something like that," Mayor Nutter said at a press conference yesterday. "I want this creep off our streets immediately."

"Our children must be able to walk around their own neighborhood without lowlifes like this individual coming up and grabbing them, touching them, or doing anything else. It's completely unacceptable, totally outrageous, we need the public's help," Nutter said.

Nutter offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of the failed kidnapper.