BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston police are investigating an attempted abduction that happened outside the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School in Roxbury Thursday morning.
Police responded to the school at approximately 9:52 a.m. after a student reported a man in a black ski mask offered her money to get inside his gray van while she was at recess on the school playground.
The girl then screamed and got the attention of staff, and the van took off, police said.
In a note to parents, school officials said all the students were brought back inside the building and were safe. Some parents then rushed to the school to pick up their children.
“They said this morning that an individual just tried to come and speak to a student at the playground, but they said there’s nothing to worry about, tried to make it sound like a small incident, but child abduction is a very big incident,” said one parent.
“You know your child is secure but you worry. You get a little worried,” said Claudia Chicha, mother of a student at the school.
No arrests have been made at this time.
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