A sheriff from North Carolina has a chilling warning for parents everywhere after a 16 year-old girl was rescued from a car during a “routine” traffic stop.
An abducted Florida teenager was rescued from a “true case of child trafficking” last week after North Carolina cops conducted a routine traffic stop on her kidnapper’s car.
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Police Rescue Teenage Girl
Fox News reported that police in North Carolina were carrying out a routine traffic stop on the Fourth of July when they noticed that the female passenger in the vehicle resembled a 16 year-old girl who had been reported missing in Florida hours before.
A press release states that after pulling over a white Audi with Florida license plates on I-95 just after midnight for a traffic violation, police asked the 40 year-old driver Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez some “routine” questions and “developed reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot.”
It was only when Vazquez finally gave police consent to search his vehicle that officers realized that the 16 year-old passenger had been reported missing by the Coral Springs Police Department in Florida just five hours before.
When questioned by police, the teenager admitted who she was and told officers that she had met Vazquez online. She has since been returned to her family, who said that they had never met Vazquez, and that they did not give him permission to drive the teenager across state lines.
Vazquez, who is a resident of Miami, Florida, has since been charged with the following crimes:
- Abduction of child
- Felony possession of synthetic cannabinoid
- Possession of marijuana paraphernalia
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Vazquez is currently being held at the Nash County Detention Center after being booked on $505,000 bond.
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Chilling Warning To Parents
In the wake of this incident, Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone has a warning for the public that parents everywhere would do well to heed.
“Monitor your kids’ social media because a lot of this stuff starts with people preying on children,” Sheriff Stone told WRAL. “If you’re not monitoring what your child is doing on the internet, then there’s the possibility that people are taking advantage of them.”
“This older guy here was taking advantage of the 16-year-old,” the sheriff continued. “He was carrying her up north, and I’m sure it was not in the best interest of that girl or for society.”
“It was not like she was bound in the car and things of that nature, but you know, it’s a young 16-year-old and a grown man, and he’s manipulated her and carried her across this country,” Stone later added to ABC News. “This is a true case of child trafficking.”
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‘Start Talking With Your Teen’
Dr. Heather Williams, a pediatrician with Safe Child NC, had similar advice for parents.
“The best thing to do is start talking with your teen and familiarize yourself with what is on their phone,” Williams said. “There are even apps you can download that go as far as monitoring all of their activity to just alerting you to something on your phone that’s not ok, even doing parental controls.”
The internet has only made it easier for predators to prey on our children, which is why it’s important now more than ever that parents stay vigilant when it comes to monitoring their kids’ online activity. While we’re glad that the story of this 16 year-old victim had a happy ending, we’re also saddened that there are countless minors out there in her position who will tragically never be rescued.
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Thank goodness for the routine traffic stop and a caring policeman.
We need to give our police the powers of judge, jury, and executioner. This pervert should have been shot dead as soon as the crime become evident. Also, our children are at risk because the education they receive nowadays are deficient in real education. In short, most modern kids are a dime short of a dollar. Who is to blame? Democrats, which in charge of our schools, are purposely dumbing down our children’s education and information. Why won’t you people wake up to the reality of this? Are you so in Love with a corrupt Biden administration that you allow this? Wake the heck up! The democrats are in love with power, not in the best interest of our country!
The Internet is a very dangerous wave to surf on! Especially for children.
She ran away from home, found someone who would help and he gets arrested and charged for abduction. How low can the justice system go. They need restructuring.
FFS! She ran away from home, found someone who would help and he gets arrested and charged for abduction. How low can the justice system go. They need restructuring.
Another one of the Biden screw ups. This is totally OK with that idiot. We have got to get these Demonrats out of office before they destroy the rest of the country.
The whole Democratic Party in Washington DC government should be taken out as well as all democrats who are governors in blue states ie Newsom in Ca and Whitmer in Michigan and the mayor in NY to name a few. So the democrats keep the border open against the law. Heaven knows who has come here in not to forget to mention the farmland being sold to China. All democrats in general can’t be trusted and lie on every front since they first became a political party. I believe the group now in Washington were bought and paid for by Soros and Obama is behind the scenes pushing their agenda. They need to be investigated for all that has happened since old mentally challenged Biden stated he was running for President again. The shame of it is is that he is being used by his own party and is an extreme embarrassment to the whole country and I believe Obama tries to act like a good guy when in reality he is running things. Pelosi and several others I believe colluded re the January 6 event. There are too many questions in relation to Jan 6 and other events that have been found out since. Also, a lot of people were sent out into the crowd that day to cause a riot atmosphere. What ever happened re the supposed bombs they saw the evening before everything erupted….was that Pelosi’s daughter? The democrats have been corrupt since initially being let back in as a political party. Time to move on with truthful, honest people, elected to represent the people of their state and not those who want to line their pockets.and gain complete power over the people and our constitution.
THANK YOU GOD FOR THIS MIRACLE :)
U R A MIGHTY GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER :)
This guy is obviously an amateur. Had he been a professional, (or at least less stupid) he would never have agreed to have his car searched.
And THAT would have been a RED FLAG to an intelligent cop.