{"id":337101,"date":"2026-09-03T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337101\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:11","slug":"girl-6-nearly-kidnapped-by-stranger-inside-manhattan-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337101\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 6, nearly kidnapped by stranger inside Manhattan subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 6-year-old girl was nearly kidnapped by a stranger<\/a> at an Upper Manhattan subway station \u2014 and cops are asking the public\u2019s help finding the woman who tried to snatch the child.<\/p>\n

The victim was approaching the turnstiles in the mezzanine of the Inwood-207th St. subway station<\/a> when she was confronted about 12:30 p.m. July 29, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"CopsCops released surveillance photos of this woman who attempted kidnapping a 6-year-old girl in an Upper Manhattan subway station on July 29. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s father told ABC 7 New York his daughter was headed to a therapy appointment<\/a> with her 36-year-old mother and younger brother.<\/p>\n

His wife was holding their young son while their daughter stood nearby and was preparing to swipe her OMNY card at the turnstile when the would-be kidnapper grabbed her.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce she took my daughter, she held her like that, tight,\u201d the victim\u2019s father, Ramiro Heras, told the station.\u00a0\u201cMy daughter starts screaming. She was like, \u2018Mom, Mom, Mom!’\u201d<\/p>\n

As the stranger attempted to go through the turnstile and into the subway with the girl, the mother yelled, \u201cLet go,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

But the kidnapper had trouble swiping her own card though to get through the turnstile. \u201cThe toll didn\u2019t go through,\u201d Heras said. \u201cOtherwise, she was taking my daughter with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspect gave up, leaving the girl, and then managed to flee onto a downtown A train, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did she do what she did?\u201d Heras said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I want to ask her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over a month later, the woman has not been caught. Meanwhile, the young girl remains traumatized and no longer wants to ride the trains, her father told ABC 7 New York.<\/p>\n

Surveillance photos released this week by the NYPD show the suspect at the turnstiles sporting a light blue wide-rimmed hat, large black sunglasses and a patterned black-and-white shirt.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers<\/a> (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6-year-old girl was nearly kidnapped by a stranger at an Upper Manhattan subway station \u2014 and cops…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-337101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337101","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=337101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}