A young girl from Iowa has been named a hero after saving her brother from an abduction attempt from their home. The Ames County Police Department said, the girl woke up Friday morning “to some commotion in the basement.” That’s when she got out of bed and took action.
After the teenage girl heard the noises coming from her basement she could hear her brother yelling. The young boy was screaming for help and was being pulled from a basement window.
The young girl stopped the suspect when “She approached the suspect in the front yard, then [the suspect] let go of him and took off running.”
According to police, the suspect had “struck the little boy in the face several times.” The boy was taken to the hospital and was treated for injuries including a bloody nose and swollen face.
Police said the boy “is pretty traumatized by what happened.”
The suspect wss identified as 17-year-old Akuk Akok of Ames county. He was found by police and taken medical facilities for mental health evaluations. Akok was in a medical facility today and will be taken into custody when he’s released, according to a police statement.
“We don’t know exactly what [Akok’s] intentions were … he wouldn’t say much to us,” police said.
“You can only imagine why someone would go into someone’s house at 1 in the morning and try to steal a child from a house,” they added. “So we really do think the sister prevented her brother from either being harmed further or potentially saved his life.”
The police said the teen girl is “a hero in this situation.”
Police filed an arrest warrant for the suspect for first-degree burglary.
Source ABC
