APTN National News
A 13-year-old First Nation girl was walking home after visiting friends in downtown Whitehorse Monday when she says someone tried to abduct her in a back alley behind a mall.
“When she called me she was very frantic on the phone and all she could say was ‘mommy somebody tried to take me,’” said the girl’s mom Jennifer Mitchell.
The girls says she was approached by a man driving a grey or turquoise sedan. He stopped, reached out and tried to grab her and pull her into the vehicle, but she took off down a road.
She says he followed her for another three blocks and he finally left her alone after she pulled out her phone to call for help.
“He kept telling her to come to the car and he just reached out and just missed grabbing her,” said Mitchell.
The suspect is not known to the victim and the RCMP are investigating.
“At this stage were looking for more information, but what we do have is that he was reportedly driving a new model sedan so a four-door vehicle either grey or turquoise in colour,” said Const. Julie Fox. “He’s older. Has a dark complexion, white beard and at the time was wearing tanned colored baggy clothing.”
APTN’s Shirley McLean said there’s another report of the same man trying to abduct a different young woman on the same day.
