It’s been a very tense weekend after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the Trayvon Martin trial, however here’s some positive news worth mentioning.
A PA teen is being hailed a hero this week after he helped track down a kidnapped little girl. The high school freshman, name Temar Boggs, was helping an old man move a couch with a friend when someone came by and asked the guys if they had seen a 5-year-old girl who had gone missing while playing in her yard. After turning on the news, Temar and his friend went outside to see that police and helicopters had filled the block, and that’s when the guys decided they would join in on the search.
According to Lancaster Online:
That’s when, Boggs said, “I had the gut feeling that I was going to find the little girl.” So he and another friend, Chris Garcia, rode on area streets looking for her.
That’s when a maroon car caught his eye. The car was on Gable Park and turned around when it got near the top of a hill toward Millersville Pike, where Boggs said several police officers were gathered with the kind of cart used to carry an injured football player off the field.
The driver, an older white man, then began quickly turning onto and out of side streets connecting to Gable Park, Boggs said. The neighborhood is something of a maze; many of its streets are cul-de-sacs. Boggs got close enough to the car to see a little girl inside. Garcia was nearby.
The driver looked at Boggs and Garcia, then stopped the car at Gable Park and Betz Farm Road and pushed the girl out of the car. The driver then drove off, Boggs said. He didn’t see where the car went. “She runs to my arms and said, ‘I need to see my mommy,’ ” Boggs said.
Boggs scooped the girl onto his shoulders and began riding the bike toward home, but then decided that wasn’t safe, so he carried her and walked back while Garcia pedaled along, guiding the bike Boggs had been using.
Back at Lancaster Arms, when Boggs and Garcia arrived with the girl, someone summoned a firefighter or law enforcement officer.
Boggs said the girl was reluctant to leave him and go to the official. “She didn’t want to leave me because she thought they were going to do something to her. I said, ‘No, it’s OK,’ ” he said.
Police said later that the abductor took the little girl for ice cream, and that there were indications of an assault. Boggs met the girl’s family Thursday evening, after he told police his story.
The girl’s family members “were just saying that I was a hero, that I was a guardian angel and that it was amazing that I was there and was able to find the girl,” he said.
Boggs doesn’t see himself as a hero.
“I’m just a normal person who did a thing that anybody else would do,” he said. “It was like fate, it was like meant for me and Chris to be there. If we wouldn’t have left (to look for the girl) who knows what would have happened to the little girl,” he said. “It was a blessing for me to make that happen.”
His mother, Tamika Boggs, said she’s proud of her son.
“You just hope you raise your child the right way. … He’s learning what I tell him, to help others,” she said.
Read more: Necole Bitchie.com: PA Teen Rescues Abducted 5-Year Old http://necolebitchie.com/2013/07/14/pa-teen-rescues-abducted-5-year-old/#ixzz2Z4eH0CSO