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Teens hailed as heroes after chasing down car and saving 5-year-old girl from being kidnapped

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Updated 16:03 18 Jul 2024 GMT+1Published 16:01 18 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Teens hailed as heroes after chasing down car and saving 5-year-old girl from being kidnapped

In 2013 five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was kidnapped by a man who lured her into his car with the offer of ice cream

Kit Roberts

Kit Roberts

Two teenagers found themselves being hailed as heroes after their actions saved a five-year-old girl who had been kidnapped.

Temar Boggs from Lancaster, Pa was just 15 years old when he was enjoying a summer day on July 11 2013.

The day had so far gone about as normally as you might expect a summer's day to go, with Temar helping a neighbour move a couch before settling in to spend some time with friends skateboarding and biking.

But things became far from ordinary when Temar and his friend Chris Garcia found out that a five-year-old girl had been abducted in their own neighbourhood.

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The pair immediately sprang into action and assembled their friends into a search party to try and find the missing Jocelyn Rojas.

Rojas was kidnapped after a man lured her into his car with the promise of ice cream, before driving away with her.

But after around half an hour to 45 minutes Temar and his friends spotted a car which they thought was behaving strangely.

Temar Boggs spotted the missing child in a car. (YouTube/Lancaster Online)
Temar Boggs spotted the missing child in a car. (YouTube/Lancaster Online)

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Explaining what it was that made him suspect the car, he told MSNBC: "He was just turning around, like he was turning around down--I wouldn’t say streets, cause they were like little cul-de-sacs, but then they would branch off to another street. So he was turning down those."

After spotting the strange car, the pair began to follow it around the streets and saw that the missing little girl was inside.

They went on to pursue the car for around fifteen minutes, until it seems that the driver realised he was being followed.

Recalling the moment Temar said: "We looked in the passenger seat: the little girl was in the car. We chased it for about ten to fifteen minutes and I guess he got scared and let her out in the corner."

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Emergency services had swarmed the area. (YouTube/Lancaster Online)
Emergency services had swarmed the area. (YouTube/Lancaster Online)

After being let out of the car Jocelyn ran towards the two boys asking for her mom, and the pair were able to take her home.

Temar said: "I picked her up—well, no, I didn’t pick her up, she ran to me and said she needed her mommy, and I rode her back home.

"Well, halfway, cause the way I had her was dangerous so then I carried her back halfway home."

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In the end Temar recalled how he had taken Jocelyn to a firefighter, who was able to return her back to her family.

Temar described why they had decided to help out, saying: "It was just out of heart. It wasn’t to get attention or anything.

"It was just to help somebody in the community, help make sure another little life was okay and make sure her future could be possible."

Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Lancaster Online

Topics: News, US News, Crime

Kit Roberts
Kit Roberts

Kit joined UNILAD in 2023 as a community journalist. They have previously worked for StokeonTrentLive, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Star.

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