A Lexington family is shaken up after an unknown man tried to kidnap their daughter right in their backyard.
“I don’t want to go to work. I don’t want my kids to go to school. I don’t feel safe letting her walk to her bus,” the girl’s mom told NBC10 Boston. “For me to know there’s a man behind my house hiding, that’s just like, it makes me feel very unsafe, just being home in general because I am a single mother of three.”
The young girl was playing in her backyard when a man grabbed her from behind and put his hand over the child’s mouth, Lexington police said in a Facebook post Thursday.
This happened at around 2 p.m. on March 14, according to police.
The girl was able to break free, and the man ran away. Police could only describe the man as dressed in all black and wearing a ski mask. The incident is now under investigation.
Lexington police are asking anyone with information regarding the incident to contact them right away.
