Sources: Man tries to kidnap 9-year-old boy from Brooklyn synagogue
NEW YORK -- Police are investigating an attempted child abduction at a Brooklyn synagogue.
It happened on Wednesday on East 7th Street in the Gravesend section of the borough.
As CBS2 found out, the young boy's mother was able to intervene.
Police sources said the 9-year-old was inside Hesed Le Avraam Synagogue with his family attending a bris at around 9:30 a.m., when a stranger dressed in Hasidic garb tried to carry him out of the building.
Sources say at some point during the ceremony the boy was standing alone near a prayer room, when an adult man approached him and asked to talk.
The man then grabbed the child by his wrist and tried leading him out, but the child refused. That's when sources say the man picked the child up and tried carrying him out over his shoulder.
The mother saw what was happening and tore her child away and the suspect took off running. Family members later told police they did not know the man.
The NYPD K-9 Unit tracked the 42-year-old man down at a yeshiva around the corner and took him into custody.
He is still in custody, with child endangerment charges pending.
