A ten-year-old girl who narrowly escaped being kidnapped is detailing her terrifying ordeal. Journey Brown rode her bike to a nearby gas station convenience store to get some candy last week when she felt something was wrong.
She noticed that a man was starring at her and tried her best to avoid him. After she paid for her candy, she left the store and realized that the man was walking ahead of her on the sidewalk.
As she approached him on her bike, the man stopped in his tracks.
"He stopped, so I thought he wanted me to go by him, and then when I went by him, he just grabbed me," Journey told KSL.
Journey fought back as the man, later identified as 44-year-old Richard Palmer, tried to pull her off her bicycle.
"I hit my head on his elbow, and he let go, and I just started riding away," she said. "I knew if he got me off my bike, that was probably the end."
Journey rushed back to her house, and her mother called 911.
"She came flying in the door, and even the aggressive way she opened the door, we instantly knew something was not right," her mother, Lauren Brown, told the news station. "We just heard her screaming, and it was a different scream than we've ever heard. I knew she wasn't hurt, but I knew something else was wrong."
Authorities managed to track down Palmer and took him into custody. Palmer, who is a registered sex offender, told police that he intended to take Brown to a "nearby vacant house and have sex with her."
He is facing charges of felony child kidnapping, and felony attempted child rape.
Lauren said she is proud of her daughter for fighting back.
"We taught our kids to scream, to fight, to yell. I don't care if they have a gun and they say they are going to shoot, you scream because as soon as you're gone, you're gone," she said.