The following story is the worst nightmare of every parent, and unfortunately, it happened to one Los Angeles father. He walked into the room of his 12-year-old daughter in the middle of the night and saw she wasn’t there.
This happened in the summer of 2015. The bedroom window in her room was cracked open so Tim and his older son immediately started searching for his daughter throughout the whole neighborhood. Eventually, they did find her, but just seconds before she got in a stranger’s truck, whom she met online. The father pulled the stranger out of the truck and knocked him to the
ground using his self-defense skills. He remembered to take a picture of the man’s face and held him on the ground till the cops arrived. The police arrested the stranger and accused him of trying to meet a child to commit a sexual act and sending harmful matters with the intention of seducing a minor. It turned out the accused stranger met Tim’s daughter online with the use of a fake profile of a 15-year-old boy, while he was 27 years old. He has been sending the girl lewd pictures of himself, and speaking sexually to her.
The father banned his daughter from using social media sites, and he sent a message to all parents that this unfortunate situation could happen to any of them. He believes that if he hadn’t helped his daughter at that point, she would have never returned home alive.