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Barefoot and covered in scratches, and collapsed into a ditch on the side of the highway, attempting to escape

A lady in Tennessee is being hailed as a Hero after she rescued a Kidnapped 12-year-old girl as she came running out of the woods

By News on the Net -- Matt Van Swol——--August 20, 2026

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Cars kept driving past her.

One woman looked in her rearview mirror and thought: somebody will stop for that baby.

...BUT NOBODY DID!!!

So she turned around.

Her name is Jennifer Maxwell.

She was driving home from her job as a healthcare caregiver on Sunday afternoon, on US-421 in Erwin, North Carolina.

That's when she saw a little girl come out of the treeline, run down the embankment, and drop into the ditch, sobbing.

Jennifer slowed down. She watched her mirror. She waited for somebody else to do something.

Not one car stopped.

So she turned her vehicle around, pulled up, and rolled down her window.

"Baby, are you okay?"

And the little girl said: "No. I've been kidnapped."

Jennifer asked if she was serious.

She was serious.

She had no shoes on. Just a big T-shirt and shorts. Her arms and legs were torn up with scratches from running through the brush.




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She had been walking in those woods for TWO HOURS.

Investigators say the man kept pushing her, grabbing her by the shoulder, forcing her to keep moving deeper into the trees.

That 12-year-old girl got away from him ON HER OWN.

She ran. She made it to the road. And then she needed one adult in America to stop the car.

Jennifer got her inside, locked the doors, and called 911.

She

drove her straight to the Erwin Police Department. Then she took

deputies BACK to the spot where she found her, so they could search the

right woods.

They found him in the treeline that night.

Daniel Francis Gear, 38. Charged with first-degree kidnapping and assault on a female. Bond set Monday at $2.5 MILLION.

She won't take the word hero.

"I just thank God that I was there, cause if it was my daughter, I'd want someone to be there also."

BE THE ONE WHO TURNS AROUND!!!!

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