Man Pleads Guilty To Kidnapping For 2011 Carjacking

A man accused of carjacking the vehicle of a woman who jumped from the moving car with her child to escape has pleaded guilty to kidnapping, NBC Washington reports.

Terron White, 23, of Jessup, faces up to 40 years in prison, according to the report.

Police say White carjacked a woman and her 20-month old son from a Baltimore gas station in July of 2011 and drove to Bethesda. The woman, Elyssa Samuels, as the car neared the Cabin John Parkway exit on the Capital Beltway.

Neither was seriously injured.

The carjacking was a “horrifying experience for the victim,” Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy said, according to NBC Washington.

Samuels told ABC7 that White made her wear a seatbelt, but that she quietly unbuckled herself and rolled from the car.

“I’m not a hero. I’m just a mom,” she told ABC7.