The parents of a Texas girl who was snatched in front of her mother and held for hours are thanking their community for mobilizing an all-out effort to bring the 8-year-old-girl home safely.
"We feel we owe a debt that can never be repaid," the grateful parents, Riz Sabatka and Rachel Sweet, said in a statement to citizens of Fort Worth who helped police find their daughter, Salem.
The broad-daylight abduction stunned the community of Fort Worth and the nation. As the hours ticked by, residents provided investigators with the key surveillance video of the brazen abduction and a description of the suspect car, a gray Ford Five Hundred. King said he spotted the car in the parking lot of the second hotel he checked and alerted police. Just after 2 a.m., nearly eight hours after she was kidnapped, police stormed a room at the hotel and rescued Salem. They arrested the alleged child snatcher, 51-year-old Michael Webb.
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