Strange woman takes little girl away from kindergarten

On the afternoon of January 13, at Thien Huong Kindergarten (Thuy Nguyen City, Hai Phong), a woman went to play with children in the school yard, then took a 4-year-old girl out of the school.

Late in the afternoon of the same day, when the child's family came to pick him up, they discovered that he was missing. The family determined that no relatives had been entrusted to pick him up, so they immediately reported it to the police.

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The subject took the child out of the school area. Photo: Contributor

Immediately upon receiving the report, the authorities took action, extracted the camera system, urgently searched for the child and initially identified the person who took the child away as Dong Thi Ha Thu (born 2007, residing in Hoang Lam ward, Thuy Nguyen city).

“Hundreds of police officers from various units were mobilized and spread out to every corner of Thuy Nguyen City and Le Chan District to search and extract camera footage from each resident's home.

From the initial image at the gate of Thien Huong Kindergarten, the police continued to extract cameras in the surrounding area and determined that, after leaving the school, the subject took the girl into a taxi and stopped at the Tran Nguyen Han railway area (Le Chan district, Hai Phong city). After that, this person went into a small alley but then disappeared," the leader of the Hai Phong Criminal Police Department informed.

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Dong Thi Ha Thu took the child to a grocery store on Tran Nguyen Han street.

Determined to quickly “rescue” the child, that very night, the authorities cordoned off the area where the suspect was suspected to be moving and continuously broadcasted identifying information about the woman and child so that people could join in the search.

People helped the police to end the journey to rescue the child early.

According to the leader of the Criminal Police Department of Hai Phong City Police, the characteristic of alleys in Le Chan District is that they have many small alleys, leading to many directions, and bordering many other areas. Camera systems are only available on main roads, while in houses in deep alleys, cameras are usually not installed. Meanwhile, the subject carrying the child went deep into the alleys, so he continuously lost track and was interrupted, making it difficult to trace.

With the spirit of relying on the masses, using the people as eyes and ears, the police force continuously sought every opportunity to get as close as possible to the area where the suspect was moving. The goal was to find the child as quickly as possible while ensuring absolute safety.

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Authorities and local people successfully "rescued" the girl. Photo: Contributor

With the joint efforts and consensus of the entire community, at around 3:15 p.m. on January 14, when Dong Thi Ha Thu led her child out of an alley on Luong Khanh Thien Street, she was discovered by local residents and a police team on duty.

Immediately, the people took the child from the woman and calmed him down. The authorities also arrested the subject and brought him to the headquarters for investigation.

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Subject Dong Thi Ha Thu. Photo: CACC

According to the Criminal Police Department of Hai Phong City Police, the child was also taken to the police headquarters and then the authorities informed the family. The child has now been returned to his mother and is in stable health.

"Fortunately, the child is safe, but the woman is mentally unstable, so when we joined the search, we were very worried about the child. When we saw that the child was still healthy, everyone on duty was very happy and breathed a sigh of relief," said a leader of Le Chan District Police who assisted Thuy Nguyen City Police in searching for traces of the suspect and the child.