'Approached and grabbed her': Man tried to abduct teenage girl waiting for school bus, authorities say

An Ohio antheral attempted to abduct a 15-year-old miss portion she was waiting for the autobus to spell to school, authorities say.

Dominic Anthony Sacco, 27, is being held by the Strongsville Police Department connected abduction charges, the instrumentality enforcement bureau announced successful a property release. The harrowing incidental unfolded connected Friday earlier the prima had hardly risen.

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Just anterior to 6:40 a.m., a 15-year-old miss was lasting by the broadside of Fair Road successful Strongsville, waiting for the autobus to instrumentality her to school, the section police section said. Then, "she was approached and grabbed by an big antheral subject."

The miss "pulled distant from the man" and ran backmost into her home, constabulary added. Soon, officers arrived and began investigating. Police said they recovered a antheral astir a 4th mile distant from wherever the miss said she was grabbed.

The antheral – aboriginal revealed to beryllium Sacco – was "positively identified arsenic the taxable that grabbed the juvenile" and placed nether arrest, the section said.

Strongsville City Schools Superintendent Cameron Ryba said helium was "deeply concerned" by the attempted abduction.

"A Strongsville High School pupil experienced a superior information concern erstwhile a 27-year-old antheral approached and grabbed her," Ryba said, according to a transcript of the connection obtained by Cleveland-based CBS affiliate WOIO. "Thanks to her courageousness and the swift effect of the Strongsville Police Department, the antheral was identified and arrested."

The connection goes on:

As some a Superintendent and a father, I americium profoundly acrophobic by this incident. I americium highly grateful for the student's spot successful protecting herself and for the contiguous actions of the Strongsville Police Department to guarantee her information and to rapidly apprehension this individual.

As a community, we volition proceed moving unneurotic to guarantee this remains an isolated incident. Please instrumentality a infinitesimal to speech with your children, not to make fear, but to assistance them physique consciousness and assurance astir what to bash if they ever consciousness unsafe.

In comments to section ABC affiliate WEWS, different pupil astatine the unidentified girl's schoolhouse remarked connected the incident.

"Is immoderate grown antheral going to travel aft maine and propulsion maine by my backpack and propulsion me? Like it's scary," the miss told the TV station. "If I americium going connected a motorcycle ride, if I'm going connected a walk, is the aforesaid happening going to hap to me?"

Strongsville is located successful the Cleveland metropolitan area, astir 20 miles southwest of the large city.