Attempted Abduction

Dee

So about a month ago I was walking home by myself because me and my walking buddy got in a big fight so she started ignoring me and eventually moved but anyways I noticed a car parked in a strange place but I thought the guy was there to pick up someone. I never thought this would happen to me but as I passed the car on the corner of the street the man got out of his car and put me in a choke hold. I went unconscious and I’m guessing he drug me to his car and a nice lady pulled up and helped me get up and get away from the man who tried to kidnap me. We got kid license plate number. She took me to the office of my apartment complex and let me borrow her phone since the man who attached me made me lose my phone on the street. I called 911 and the ambulance came because I had a few cuts on my neck from struggling.

They identified the guy that night when they showed me a photo line up and arrested him the next afternoon after SWAT got him out of his apartment. I later found out that he tried the same thing to a 17 year old jogging and touched her in inappropriate places. And tried kidnapping a 52 year old woman walking on the trails. He is 25 years old.The trial is on May 3 to decide when he is going to get sentenced but might let him out till the sentence trial which will be in about 6-18 months.

I’m so nervous they are going to jet him out jail until the sentencing trial. He knows where I go to school because that’s where I was walking from. I’m an 8th grader and I’m 14. I don’t want him to come looking for me or the other women he tracked because we turned him in. I might even have to testify against him when the time comes.

Tomorrow I am walking to my friends house to work on a project and I am super scared. I’ve been carrying mace everywhere I go now. I haven’t felt comfortable staying by myself at all since everything happened and I was ALWAYS alone. I’m even afraid to go out into the stores and I can’t help it. All my friends, family and teachers have been giving me a lot of special treats which was nice at first because it was difficult but now it’s kind of annoying. Lost of kids at my school have been giving me flowers and sorry cards even from people I don’t know. My mom keeps acting like nothing happened but I’m so scared and I can’t think of anything else. I get flash backs soo much from when he choked me and went unconscious. I’ve been going to counseling but nothing has helped and I don’t walk home anymore.

I don’t know what to do to make myself feel better and I feel hopeless and scared of him coming after me.