{"id":335959,"date":"2026-09-02T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335959\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:20:46","slug":"woman-sought-for-trying-to-kidnap-a-6-year-old-girl-from-mothers-clutches-at-manhattan-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335959\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sought for trying to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from mother\u2019s clutches at Manhattan subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"939\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/RMA-2240-26-Attempted-Kidnapping-34-Pct-TD-3-7-29-26-Photo-2.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"suspect who attempted to kidnap girl at manhattan subway station\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Woman sought for trying to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from mother's clutches at Manhattan subway station 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are on the hunt for a woman who attempted to kidnap a young child inside a Manhattan subway station over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police are on the hunt for a woman who attempted to kidnap a young child inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Manhattan<\/a> subway station over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident occurred at about 12:30 p.m. on July 29 inside the Inwood-207 Street stop on the A line.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the female suspect approached a young mother and her 6-year-old daughter from behind as they passed through the turnstile. The perpetrator grabbed the child\u2019s arm and attempted to pull the girl away.<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the mother screamed at the woman and was able to yank her daughter through the turnstile, separating them.\n<\/p>\n<p>A mother was passing through the turnstile with her 6-year-old daughter when a woman approached them from behind and grabbed the child. The youngster was not injured.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137867399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/RMA-2240-26-Attempted-Kidnapping-34-Pct-TD-3-7-29-26-Photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"816\" title=\"Woman sought for trying to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from mother's clutches at Manhattan subway station 2\"  \/>Police say they are still on the hunt for a woman who attempted to kidnap a young child inside a Manhattan subway station over the summer.NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled the station on a southbound A train, but not before the mother was able to snap a photo of her. The image was subsequently provided to the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd34pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> 34th Precinct<\/a> and NYPD Transit District 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect as standing about five feet two inches and last seen wearing a blue hat, sunglasses, and a white and black shirt.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are on the hunt for a woman who attempted to kidnap a young child inside a Manhattan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,2977,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,104,615],"class_list":["post-335959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime","tag-kidnapping","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}