BodyCam Footage Shows Heroic Rescue Of 6-Year-Old From Abductor
The Louisville Metro Police Department released bodycam footage that showed the breathtaking moment the officers rescued a 6-year-old little girl from the clutches of a would-be kidnapper. All thanks to bystanders who saw the man take the girl and acted quickly.
"You just can't get there fast enough," Officer Jason Burba said to WDRB-TV. "Seconds feel like hours. Your only thought is getting there as fast as you can."
Police were able to rescue the girl within about a 30-minute window after the creep snatched her. In the footage, you can hear the terrified little girl cry for her father.
Police say they charged 40-year-old Robby Wildt with kidnapping a minor. "It's extremely rare for us to see a stranger kidnapping," said LMPD Sgt. Joe Keeling to WDRB.
"She's a 6-year-old girl that obviously couldn't help herself. She was absolutely terrified. I hate the fact she went through this. I hate the fact this is probably something that's going to affect her the rest of her life," he explained.
"But we were able to get there," he added, "get in the area, find her, rescue her from her captor, and we were able to prevent anything worse than what had already happened from happening to her."
Wildt's bond was set at $1 million after he pleaded 'not guilty to the kidnapping charged. Kind of ridiculous, if you ask me, considering police recovered the child from his passenger seat. Wildt said he felt bad for taking the girl and was actually taking her back home when police stopped him.
Thankfully, police reported that the little girl was not injured during her 30-minute- terrifying car ride and has already been returned safe to her family.
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This little one was likely spared serious abuse thanks to the bystanders and great police work. Meanwhile, Democratically-ran cities around the nation continue to push to defund the police or abolish them completely.