Detectives Searching For Suspect In Wednesday’s Attempted Berlin Child Abduction
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7:00 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
BERLIN TOWNSHIP, NJ.- The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and the Berlin Township Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating an individual who attempted to abduct an 8-year-old girl while she was walking to school Wednesday morning.
According to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, shortly before 9:00 a.m., members of the Berlin Township Police Department responded to John F. Kennedy Elementary School located on Mt. Vernon Avenue in the Township, after receiving a report of an attempted child abduction, that had just occurred.
Upon arrival, Police Officers learned that an 8-year-old girl had told school staff that an unknown man approached her from behind and attempted to abduct her while she was walking to school at just around 8:45 a.m. in the area of Washington and Grove Avenues in the Township. The girl told Police Officers she was able to fight off the man and ran to school. The child said she believes that she may have stabbed the man in the face with a pencil, and he may have a facial injury. The child was uninjured in the incident.
Police Searching For Suspect
The man is described as an African American with dark skin and a dark beard, wearing black clothes and a baseball cap with an unknown symbol on it.
Camden County Prosecutor MacAulay is asking the public to remain vigilant and to contact Detectives about any suspicious individuals or activity they may have observed in that area Wednesday morning.
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective William DeFoney of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit at (856) 952-7460 or Detective Sergeant Colin Kelbaugh of the Berlin Township Police Department at (856) 767-5878, Ext.668. Tips can also be sent to CAMDEN.TIPS.
