An Ohio man is facing a felony abduction charge after he allegedly tried to kidnap a 6-year-old girl while she was taking out the trash; the incident was captured on her family’s Ring doorbell camera.
The man was seen approaching the little girl, Ken’Adi Nash, who is taking the trash out to the garbage cans by the curb.
The man then grabs the girl by her arm. Ken’Adi is heard letting out a sharp scream as the man lets go and walks down the sidewalk. The girl quickly runs inside her home.
Police identified the man as 33-year old Deric McPherson.
“This guy walked by, and he touched, and he pulled me,” Ken’Adi said.
Her father, Ricky, added, “He wouldn’t have let go of her if she wouldn’t have pulled and screamed like she did.”
Ricky recalled jumping into his car and following McPherson. “I chased him like he still had my kid. I definitely didn’t want him to be able to go snatch another kid,” he said.
Ken’Adi’s mother, Mandie, said she’s so proud of her daughter’s quick thinking, noting that their previous discussions with their four daughters about escaping an attacker was worth going over and discussing.
Mandie said that her daughter came inside shouting and let out a blood-curdling scream. “She ran into the living room and screamed ‘mommy someone tried to take me, he touched my private parts,” Mandie recalled.
Mandie said she went outside and saw him walking down the sidewalk before she and her husband chased him. Her husband then jumped in his car and tracked down McPherson.
Mandie claims that they have often had the “stranger danger” talk with Ken’Adi, telling her “if anybody ever tries to touch or take you, scream, bite, kick and make as much noise as possible.”
Mandie’s husband cornered McPherson in a parking lot while speaking to police in Butler County.
McPherson was arrested and charged with abduction and gross sexual imposition on a victim younger than 13. He is being held on a $35,000 bond.
McPherson’s arrest comes roughly eight years after he was charged with rape before a grand jury dismissed the complaint.
