'It’s every parent's fear': Teen describes frightening moment she was almost kidnapped
A high school student has recounted the terrifying moment when she thought she was about to be kidnapped.
Veronica Constante of Tooele, Utah, was walking home from school on Wednesday when she noticed a green truck following her, Fox13 reported.
She said the truck followed her for several blocks before its driver pulled up in front of her and asked her if she needed a ride.
"I told him no," Veronica said.
"That's when he opened his doors. I started running."
Fearing she was going to be abducted, she immediately reached for her phone and called the police.
“I was crying because I was so scared," the teenager said.
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Veronica said the man, who she described as being in his 30s with shoulder-length blonde hair, kept watching her as she called the police and her mother, but disappeared when he saw police.
“I just heard my daughter crying screaming, ‘mum, mum,’” Veronica's mother Crystal Diane told Fox13.
“I’m like, 'What’s going on? Calm down. Relax.' She was like, ‘Mum, some guy was trying to pick me up.’”
Police are looking for the suspect and the scary close call has prompted a reminder from the teen's mother for parents to talk to their children about stranger danger.
“It’s every parent's fear," she said.
"I want them to be able to talk to their kid because it can happen to anybody.”
