Kidnapped boy safe after 'extremely traumatic day'

A 13-year-old named Clay Moore was kidnapped on the Friday of February 23, 2007, in Parrish, Florida. The day he got kidnapped started as an ordinary school day. Clay went out to the bus stop and waited with the other kids, then all of the sudden this man pulls up in a red truck, gets out and tells clay to get into the car. Clay’s reply was “Sir, I don’t know you.” Then the guy pulled out a gun and said he will shoot if he doesn’t cooperate. So Clay gets into the car and all the kids runaway in fear of getting shot. The kidnapper drove Clay about 20-30 miles from where he was last seen, into the remote part of Manatee County. There, Clay was tied up to a tree by his feet and hands by duct tape and his own clothes. Then he was left in the massive farming land/woods. After a couple hours, Clay thought about escaping. But he was fearful of the return of the kidnapper. Finally, he escaped by kicking out and using a safety pin. After that, ClayStarted walking then running until he approached the road. Then he saw a farmer and asked him to borrow his cell phone so he could call his mom. When she asked him where he was, he replied saying he didn’t know. A couple moments later, the police got to him by tracing the call to his mom that was at 1:30 pm. Every one was happy for him that except a couple scratches, he was unharmed. After he was screened for injuries, he described the kidnapper as a 5 “8” Hispanic looking guy. But after the interviews with the kids at his bus stop, the officers were convinced that he could have also been a White guy with a tan because kids said he didn’t have a Hispanic accent. Then when officers and investigators viewed the land he was brought to, they noticed that the kidnapper knew what he was doing exactly and he had already had it planned. Now the kidnapper is still at large and the town is having a lot of precautions so it doesn’t happen again. So what basically happened was that Clay was kidnapped because he was the closest to the kidnapper and he was the first one in his sight. And then he was tied up while the kidnapper was getting ready to do his next step. But he was too late to do it when Clay ran away. I thought what the kidnapper did was just really sick. And I am happy for Clay because he escaped before any more evil could have been done. And I hope that the kidnapper gets what he deserves and something dreadful like this doesn’t happen again. In this situation, they used science to investigate and to find the suspect.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/23/amber.alert/index.html