02-08-2012, 08:42 PM
walmart is prime pedo hunting grounds. people cannot let their kids roam alone!
this is how Adam Walsh was taken from a Sears years ago. some things don't change.
this is one fortunate child who did the right thing.
and thankfully he was an idiot, everyone knows walmart has cameras everywhere.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The man charged with trying to kidnap a 7-year-old girl Wednesday from a west Georgia Wal-Mart was on parole at the time for a voluntary manslaughter conviction in DeKalb County, according to police.
Thomas Andrew Woods, 25, of Austell, was taken into custody and questioned before being arrested Wednesday afternoon, Bremen Police Chief Keith Pesnell told the AJC.
"We're pretty confident we've got the right guy," Pesnell said.
But as he was being led in handcuffs from the police department to a patrol car, Woods told reporters he was the wrong guy.
"I was never there," Woods said.
According to police, Woods started talking to Brittney Baxter in the toy aisle of the store and then grabbed her and put his hand around her mouth. But Brittany kicked and screamed, and the man let her go, police said. Neither she nor her mother, who was nearby in the store, were injured.
"When she told me someone had tried to get her, I just couldn't believe it," Brittney's mother, Georgeann Baxter, told Channel 2 Action News.
Store surveillance cameras captured the incident, and based on the description of the suspect's vehicle, police located Woods a few miles away in Tallapoosa, Pesnell said.
Woods was charged with attempted kidnapping, and additional charges are likely, Pesnell said. The suspect was being held in the Haralson County Jail. GBI agents are assisting with the investigation.
Woods was released in October from the Wheeler Correctional Facility, where he had been since April 2007 following his conviction in DeKalb, according to the state Department of Corrections. According to DeKalb County jail records, Woods, previously of Tucker, was arrested in Oct. 2004, three months after the crime. He was 17 years old at the time.
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Brittney Baxter, 7, was not injured in an attempted abduction at a west Georgia Walmart.
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this is how Adam Walsh was taken from a Sears years ago. some things don't change.
this is one fortunate child who did the right thing.
and thankfully he was an idiot, everyone knows walmart has cameras everywhere.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The man charged with trying to kidnap a 7-year-old girl Wednesday from a west Georgia Wal-Mart was on parole at the time for a voluntary manslaughter conviction in DeKalb County, according to police.
Thomas Andrew Woods, 25, of Austell, was taken into custody and questioned before being arrested Wednesday afternoon, Bremen Police Chief Keith Pesnell told the AJC.
"We're pretty confident we've got the right guy," Pesnell said.
But as he was being led in handcuffs from the police department to a patrol car, Woods told reporters he was the wrong guy.
"I was never there," Woods said.
According to police, Woods started talking to Brittney Baxter in the toy aisle of the store and then grabbed her and put his hand around her mouth. But Brittany kicked and screamed, and the man let her go, police said. Neither she nor her mother, who was nearby in the store, were injured.
"When she told me someone had tried to get her, I just couldn't believe it," Brittney's mother, Georgeann Baxter, told Channel 2 Action News.
Store surveillance cameras captured the incident, and based on the description of the suspect's vehicle, police located Woods a few miles away in Tallapoosa, Pesnell said.
Woods was charged with attempted kidnapping, and additional charges are likely, Pesnell said. The suspect was being held in the Haralson County Jail. GBI agents are assisting with the investigation.
Woods was released in October from the Wheeler Correctional Facility, where he had been since April 2007 following his conviction in DeKalb, according to the state Department of Corrections. According to DeKalb County jail records, Woods, previously of Tucker, was arrested in Oct. 2004, three months after the crime. He was 17 years old at the time.
Brittney Baxter, 7, was not injured in an attempted abduction at a west Georgia Walmart.