It was a frightening three hours in Boro park, Shabbos afternoon, when word spread of the kidnapping of two children.
A spokesperson for Boro Park shomrim tell YWN that a group of children were playing in a backyard of a home on 51st Street and 14th Avenue in the afternoon hours, when a strange woman walked into the yard, and immediately left with two 4-year-old children. A sister of the children quickly informed a parent, who contacted Shomrim and the NYPD. An intense search began, with volunteers going street by street searching for the suspect and the children.
Bichasdei Hashem, after approximately 2 and a half hours, the woman was seen walking on 16th Avenue and 52nd Street – still holding the childrens hands. She was promptly taken into custody by the NYPD. Sources tell YWn that she claimed she saw the children crying and figured she would take them to the park for a walk.
A police official tells YWN that charges against the woman are pending.
(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)
16 Responses
Boruch Hashem they were unharmed but this is the kind of thing that can happen when you have children watching children instead of parents or an adult watching them.
Hang her!
Baruch hashem it worked out well. However, how can a strange woman walk into someone’s back yard, take two 4 year old children with no one seeing her or seeking to stop her? Something doesn’t sound right
I heard that its a family fight.
Lots of possibilities. Maybe people thought she was babysitting. Maybe kids recognized and went with her because she worked for the family.
What nationality was the woman?
Rubbish! I know this family I know the back yard where they were playing there is no outside access to the back yard. And it’s no family fight at all.
Why wouldn’t two 4 year olds scream or cry when someone tries to take them away? Did they know her? This is so scary! Baruch Hashem it ended well.
Here we go with the yentas passing judgment again…
WAIT for the facts to come out and we’ll see that it wasn’t a kidnapping after all.
Logic dictates that a kidnapper would have been long gone after the crime, not strolling through the neighborhood.
B”H the children are safe and home. However, too many children of young age are left on their own to play out near the house or in hallway apt buildings. Should the Bureau of Child Abuse drop into the neighborhood there would be chaos because of young children on their own.
Bizarre.
To No. 2
Yes Mark. “Hang her”. We should “hang” every mentally deranged woman who steals a baby from the hospital or kidnaps some young kids in the belief she is helping them. That is the right punishment for such lunatics who sadly are walking our streets since the progressive mental health “experts” decided to close down all the mental health hospitals and turn these people on to the streets.
To #3 I don’t know where you live But here in Boro Park I see every day yes every day young kids, boys and girls walking alone or with a sibling to a corner grocery. Playing outside their home. Walking to and from school. (With a yeshiva on almost every other block many kids don’t need a school bus)I don’t get your question. Hashem should always protect us.
Seems like she was familiar to these kids- and the others playing.
Reply to #1,#3, – seems like you guys?don’t go for a nap on shabbos afternoon noon.
Reply to #2, – why rush to the dead penalty when she is not even charged yet for anything.
Reply to #4, – why would you spread rumors and lashan hara.
Its a family fight for years indeed!
AZOI.IS says:
April 26, 2014 at 10:47 pm
Lots of possibilities. Maybe people thought she was babysitting. Maybe kids recognized and went with her because she worked for the family.
What nationality was the woman? Jewsih from Boro park
Jewish she has a very Jewish name. Seems she wanted to take them to the park