Miami Police Honor 6-Year-Old Girl Who Thwarted Abduction Attempt By Biting Would-Be Kidnapper

By CBS Miami Team

July 20, 2023

MIAMI -- The Miami Police Department on Tuesday honored a young girl who managed to foil a would-be abduction attempt earlier this month at an apartment complex in part by biting the suspect.

Surrounded by her parents and Miami police officers who gave her a standing ovation, A'hlyric, set to start kindergarten this fall, received a talking doll and a bicycle for her efforts to avoid becoming a crime victim.

"She's really brave," the girl's mother, Teshia McGill, said immediately following the incident. "She fought him off."

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