CINNAMINSON, N.J., June 21 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old New Jersey girl who remembered a 2-year-old news story used that knowledge to escape an abductor who had bound her in duct tape.
The unidentified girl was staying at a Cinnaminson-area motel with her family Saturday when a man grabbed her as she returned a vacuum to housekeepers.
He took her to a room and bound her with duct tape, Philadelphia's WCAU-TV News reported Monday.
Just before police arrived, the child remembered a similar incident in Philadelphia that made national headlines in July 2002 when another girl, then 7-year-old Erica Pratt, freed herself by chewing through the duct tape.
Using the same technique, the latest victim chewed through the tape and crawled out of the room and into safety.
By then, the abductor -- described as a heavy-set, light skin black male with stubble on his chin -- had fled in a silver SUV with New Jersey license plates.
