California good Samaritans who spotted a sign reading “Help Me!” alerted police who rescued a 13-year-old girl originally kidnapped in Texas. KNBC’s Darsha Philips reports.
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The sound of freedom does matter after all.
Tim Ballard will be on Faux news telling the story of how he bravely rappelled into the Laundromat, had a fist fight with 6 bad guys, ran after the 7th and rescued the girl.
YES, it does!
Listen, Tim did more harm than good… His filming in 2014 caused more girls to be kidnapped and after their night of filming it, they threw the girls away and never looked back. He’s not doing God’s work, I really wish he was, he’s doing it for his ego. This is an issue I really care about and I would praise good work if his movie was it. It’s not.
🙄😑😮💨
A miracle pulled from a certain tragedy. My heart is filled with joy for this young girl and her family.
A Miracle would have been her not having been kidnapped at all.
Yes, the outcome is usual not good in cases like this. However, for any child who has been SA-ed, it will affect them for the rest of his/her life.
Jesus. Thank god she paid attention
He’ll get his fair share when he goes in.
I hope that monster rots in prison for the rest of his life
LGBT politics will get him out quick
@TVTruther maga politik would work far quicker and easier
61 year old perverted kiddnapper ! Lock him up !!!
Few time pleasure…cause lifetime of boredom inside 4 walls 🧱 ……Not Worth only stupid would do that …smart people just use hand and it done stress free and feel reliefs
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@karmakazi219👀 yes we need to keep our eyes open cause you never know…
He’ll get killed in there.
A 61 year-old man needed to kidnap a 13 year-old girl in order to see if his old hydraulics were still functional!? Disgusting!
Thanks god we have another Trump supporter in jail.
@musicByJC trump is the one who is committed to ending child traffick1ng and T0rture… dummy. Keep rooting for the bad guys and spending your tax $ to support the worlds biggest problem aka CT
Hey! That guy’s not one of mine! I don’t think he is anyway….
@resident rump Statistically, 95% of all groomers are MAGA/Trump supporters.
DEATH sentence for this man,, !!!,,,
100 years for that guy
I wish death penalty was like china carried out in days
Piece of $#&@ I hope he gets his that poor girl 😞 Thank God for that lady being so aware
Handy that: having a red sharpie laying around.
This lady’s eyes were open she acted fast and did the right thing. Hero is just the beginning
castrate him!!
But Some idiots always calling ICE over her to trying to deport her . 😒👎
Y’all please don’t give Carlee Russell any new ideas!
Doesn’t had up that note was written to nice she had time to put a punctuated if written for help it’s going to be messy and we’re did she get that red marker she had plenty of time to run 🏃♀️
Were you there?
I doubt that the note we see in the news article is the actual note. The actual note is likely in police evidence.
And a 13 yr old, or any victim for that matter, may have been too terrified to run. Where would she run to? They were far from her hometown. And home may not have been safe either, which is perhaps why she was out walking alone.
Are you allowed to have unsupervised internet access????
I remember holding a sign up that said help me being kidnapped when i was on a school bus.
My wash lady is sweet and kind just like her👏🏽👏🏽💕
Kidnapped a child and went to California……sounds about right.
That’s craziness
A lot of psychological psychos down here in Texas.
He’s from California
I never said he was from Texas and he didn’t take that child from California.
There everywhere!
Be sure to let him out after a couple years. We all make mistakes. As long as he’s shown “good behavior” (behind bars) He’s probably “learned his lesson”. Probably knows now not to do that…
Right? I wonder how many times he’s been in trouble for other crap like this.
They should let the victim’s adult male relatives have a “free 48 hours” with the kidnapper.
And cut off his private part in the process
She A Hero!
See Something
Say Something
🙏⚖️
Do Something
I’m so thankful for this outcome. I live in Alabama where a hoax was perpetrated that makes me sick. But this girl here was in absolute danger! Thank you for helping her. Thank you a million times over!
You don’t know yet the outcome in Alabama. At least the young woman is safe at home.
Yes. Exactly. It begs the question- Why did Carlee get nationwide ongoing attention BUT this MINOR did not?
We don’t know it was a hoax. Police have gotten it wrong before.
what happened to the nationwide amber alert?
And the dems want to protect these degenerates=
Poor little girl. Awesome job for those heroes
Khmer pride
Same man who kidnapped Carlee Russell possibly 🤪
Glad they caught that trash. Why didn’t they show his horrible face?😡🧐😒🤔
I was thinking the same thing!!
Will an adult male with the same sign get the same response?
What is happening to America? In this context, it’s worse than some third world countries!
We ll , when you flood a first world country with third world people … what do you expect .
I doubt that, most of the victims in other countries don’t make the news.
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Good grief, times are long past where you can walk alone. This world is going down the drain quickly. I’m glad she got away. She was smart to make a sign. She got rescued not only by a wonderful person, but by using her wits.
it has always been like that unfortunaley
no court dates just a find a tree
Where is the picture of this monster?
Why won’t they show the kidnapper’s face?
Right!!
Sounds to me that it was the customer who saved the girl not the owner of the laundry mat.
This good news is ‘THE SOUND OF FREEDOM’.
Missing since July 6th and no amber alert??
Why can’t we see the face of this monster?
Hope they extradict him back to Texas. If he stays in California he’ll be out in a couple of weeks.
Yes, Ms Wong 👏! Trust your instincts. Kudos to them for helping.
The new movie Sound of Freedom shines a light on this issue and the horrific crime of child trafficking. It has reached #1 in theaters without any mainstream backing. Child trafficking is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and is modern day slavery for these children. It is in theaters but not being promoted. It’s a must see for all parents.
Please consider going to see the film to help bring awareness to and combat this issue. Thank You
It’s fortunate the 13-year-old girl was from Texas as had she been from California and a victim of California’s ineffective, union-controlled public schools, she would not have known how to write “help me.”
You must have never been down here. Take that energy and In N Out burger with you.
Kudos to tipster who reported this why are some men so evil.
dont sleep with both eyes close in prison ..
Thank god she is ok 👍🏾
That’s a hero
A true hero
Not Caitlyn Jenner when she was called a hero
THANK YOU FOR BEING A GOOD PERSON WITH A GOOD HEART TO HELP HER. I HOPE YOU WIN THE LOTTERY
Getting assaulted by a 61
Year old man 🤮 🤮🤮
Now this what carlee should’ve came up with
Chemical Castration. That’s the only thing these animals understand.
*Creepy males* beware: you’ll *never pass as “normal”* to anyone who actually is.
They’re gonna have fun sexually assaulting him in prison .
This one is real?
Because due to recent trafficking bills being shot down in California the perpetrator knew California will be soft on him. Nice job Democrats!
And yet “Sound of Freedom” is a QANON conspiracy theory movie….
Abbotts Texas has really become a cesspool of mass shootings, failing infrastructure, obsolete and confusing gridwork and now it is the human trafficking capitol of america. He had to outdo florida on that one too didn’t he? I hate telling people I live here.
Sadly I don’t think he just started doing this at 61..
Imagine seeing an Asian lady saving a young kid from kidnapping today and the next day you see in the news that an Asian person gets beaten brutally by American brats while walking in the streets.
What a piece of filth. SMH.
No worries, Gavin Newsom will release him just like the other violent offenders in California prisons.
California will release him in no time….. smh 🤦🏽♀️
If only the death penalty was allowed.
May the Lord Bless this Women all her days❤❤❤
I hope they cut 😮 off the part that makes him a man…….because of what he did to her
Show us his picture!!!!!!
Hopefully his fellow inmates will find out what he did and usher him to meet Satan, his new boss, before the trial. Society has no use for pedos. Death penalty is warranted. He’s taken something from that child that she can never get back.
Texas is a disgusting human trafficking zone…so is massaxhusetts…abmnd San Deigo California.. fiends trying to get kids and womrn…thrn you have eomrn trying to lead other womrn in sexortation. Welcome to the real world. Never get in their car. Scream and shout and fight if you have to. If you get in your gone.
Throw him into the prison’s general population, unprotected. ⛓️
THE SHEER AMOUNT OF LITTLE BLACK GIRLS CLASSIFIED AS “RUNAWAYS” GETTING ZERO ATTENTION WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY COMPLETE STRANGERS TO BE FORGOTTEN AND LOST FOREVER IS STAGGERING IN AMERICA. Which is why that black young lady who just lied saying that she was abducted has TO PAY THE PIPER AND BE JAILED IN A WAY THAT EVERY OTHER BLACK GIRL ON EARTH KNOWS to never lie like that again.
It’s crazy that people still kidnap with cameras everywhere
Just keep Joe “touchy sniffy” Biden away from her. The poor girls been thru enough
omg thank goodness!
Not surprised it’s a Texan. Greg, come get your boy!!
But where were her relatives? No amber alert ? We’re they even looking for her or is she a street teen that has nobody?
I really do think castration without pain killers would be a suitable sentence and deterrent for these crimes. We need more females in decision making positions in the legal system.
Look what happens when we come together.
Was she reported missing?????
The miracle will be her not turning up pregnant but if she does, Being able to get an abortion in Texas.
Kidnappings by a stranger are actually very rare. Thank goodness this one ended without her being found dead.
Help me too! First of all, pay me…
FAILED AGAIN Cal. Governor “Gavin Newsom” ALL because of the DEMOCRATES. STOP THE MAFIA Communism RULE. 💣
USA needs Republican order / Peace and Freedom for all. 🌎☮
Oh my….she saved her life.