GOOD DEED GOES AWRY IN ACTON ABDUCTION UNKNOWINGLY AIDED.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer ACTON - When a woman with a 9-year-old girl showed up at an Acton shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into Thursday night, saying she was out of gas and had locked her keys in her car, citizens didn't hesitate to help. The good Samaritans helped the woman get her Hyundai's door open, gave her gas money, offered directions to San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and gave the pair a pizza for the trip. It wasn't until the next morning that the citizens heard news reports and realized they had helped a mentally unstable Bakersfield woman who had abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point her daughter from a supervised visit. ``They just thought they were helping someone out,'' said Detective Mary Degeare of the Bakersfield Police Department. ``They didn't know anything about the abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. .'' Pamela Walden, 50, and daughter Cierra Rose showed up in Acton about 8 p.m. Thursday - almost four hours after the girl's abduction in Bakersfield, but 90 minutes before Bakersfield police asked for a statewide Amber Alert Am·ber Alert n. A message that conveys information about a recently abducted person, usually displayed on electronic signs positioned along roadways and broadcast by mass media, intended to enlist the public's help in finding the abducted person and and some eight hours before the alert actually went out. Amber Alert are not usually used for parental abductions, but police decided this was a different case. Pamela Walden is said to believe that people are trying to kill her daughter and that the girl has a computer chip implanted in her head that allows God to speak through her, officials said. Pamela Walden was arrested in February and again on Aug. 21, but she was released on Tuesday, just two days before the abduction. Pamela Walden lost custody of the girl a month ago following a dependency hearing. ``This little girl is certainly in some danger,'' Degeare said. The girl was taken from the Kern County Department of Human Services building Thursday during a supervised visit with her mother. The person supervising the visit said she was distracted when Pamela Walden grabbed her daughter and fled about 4:10 p.m., police said. Bakersfield Police attempted to activate the Amber Alert system about 9:30 p.m., but because of their unfamiliarity with the new system the alert didn't go out until about 4 a.m. Friday. The good Samaritans called Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's deputies early Friday and Acton resident Deputy Eric Doepking interviewed them. Bakersfield detectives transmitted a photograph that the good Samaritans positively identified as the pair seen in Acton, police said. Officials initially believed that Walden was heading to Oregon. California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers were working with Border Patrol agents to look for the mother's car and make sure they didn't cross into Mexico. Cierra is described as being white, standing about 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 60 pounds. She has blond hair, blue eyes Blue eyes are eyes that have blue irises (see eye color), and may also refer to:
Pamela Walden is described as being white with brown shoulder length hair and green eyes, weighing about 110 pounds and standing about 5 feet 2 inches tall. She was wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. They were in a dark blue 1999 Hyundai 2-door with California license plate number 4SHV SHV Shareholder Value SHV Standard High Volume SHV Sheave SHV Steenkolen Handels Vereeniging SHV Shreveport, LA, USA - Regional Airport (Airport Code) SHV Sport Horse Versatility SHV Supersonic/Hypersonic Vehicle SHV Super Hybrid Vehicle 526. Anyone with information is asked to call their local sheriff's station, California Highway Patrol office or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color -- ran in AV edition only) CIERRA ROSE |
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