A keen-eyed primary school teacher in the US has saved an 11-year-old girl from a suspected kidnapping.
News Ltd reports that Sandra Ferguson, a teacher at Sutter Elementary in Antioch, California, saw the girl in the car with a man she didn’t recognise.
She ran over to the car and could immediately tell something was wrong, she told ABC 7.
“I said, ‘Sweetheart, is that your dad?’ She said, ‘No he’s a friend.’ I said, ‘No, he’s not your friend!’ I told her, ‘You get out of that truck right now!’”
Ferguson said her own reaction caught her by surprise.
“It was kind of like a superwoman power thing. I can’t believe I did that,” she said.
Sandra Ferguson.
Police arrested the man, Santiago Salazar, 51, on suspicion of kidnapping. He had grabbed the girl’s wrist and pulled her into the vehicle after luring her over.
School principal Debra Harrington said Ms Ferguson was a “guardian angel” as she thanked her for stopping “something terrible from happening.”
