Attempted Abduction of 4-Year-Old Girl Thwarted ... By Her Brother
As far as any future older-brother shenanigans are concerned, it's safe to say that Nathan Kuhns has a lifetime free pass. Cut the heads off his younger sister's dolls, have his G.I. Joes storm Barbie's Malibu stronghold, ruin her first dance, first date, first kiss, ruin her wedding day, all Nathan has to say is: "Remember when we were kids, and I beat up the guy trying to kidnap you."
Erin Kuhns, mother of three, was walking her children near Myrtle Beach when she noticed that her 4-year-old daughter, Josie, had wandered off. Like any mother with her hands full, she outsourced the job of corralling Josie to her 8-year-old son, Nathan, who sped off across the sand, only to come upon a scene that is every parent's worst nightmare. A strange man was trying to drag a struggling Josie into his waiting car.
Some children would have frozen at the sight, while others might have wasted valuable time running to get help from an adult. Nathan Kuhns chose a different tact. The 8-year-old let loose a yell, and then rushed in and introduced the would-be abductor to his two fists, Ernie and Bert.
"I screamed because of the fact someone was trying to pull her in the car," Nathan told WTAE Pittsburgh. "And I went down there and beat the crap out of this guy."
Nathan may not know Karate, but he does know a brother's crazy love for his sister. His relentless assault caused the unknown assailant to jump back into his car and flee, empty-handed. By the time Erin Kuhns reached her two children, all that a proud but trembling Nathan could do was tell his tearful mother, "Mommy, I just kicked, and I punched, and I hit and I just kept doing it."
And if we can throw in one more silver lining to an event that should never have come to pass in the first place, Nathan scratched the man so severely that local police were able to collect DNA evidence from the skin underneath his fingernails.
It's widely accepted that there is a special place in the penal hierarchy for those that prey on children. Child abductors and child molesters are commonly viewed as the lowest of the low, even amongst the most hardened of criminals. Just wait until they're introduced to the grown man with a weakness for children who ended up in prison because he got beaten up by an 8-year-old kid.
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