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Teacher's aide lauded as hero for thwarting alleged kidnapping attempt
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A teacher's aide at a California elementary school is being called a hero after she thwarted an alleged kidnapping attempt.
According to KGO-TV, an 11-year-old Sutter Elementary student was walking to the Antioch school Friday when Santiago Salazar, 51, of Brentwood reportedly pulled the girl into his car.
Sandra Ferguson, a teacher's aide at the school, told KGO that she spotted the frightened-looking girl sitting in the vehicle and asked whether the unfamiliar man was her dad. The girl said that the man was her friend.
"I said, 'No, he's not your friend,'" Ferguson told KGO. "I put my car in front of his and blocked him in. I told her, 'You get out of that truck right now!'"
Ferguson called 911. Officers arrived and arrested Salazar, who was charged with kidnapping, ABC News reports.
"Thankfully, she was a guardian angel, preventing something terrible from happening," the school's principal, Debra Harrington, told KGO.
