LOWELL, Mass. (WHDH) – A 54-year-old man was arrested in Lowell Sunday after police said he followed two children into a home.
One of the children’s mothers confronted the suspect and pushed him outside. The mother credited her brave 11-year-old daughter and a neighborhood for the situation ending how it did and not differently.
The woman said her 11-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old friend were playing outside on Court Street in Lowell when her daughter noticed a man staring at her. The girl then started to scream.
The 11-year-old went inside her house with her 9-year-old friend, protecting her friend as she yelled for her mother to come help and dialed 911.
The mother said when she heard all of the commotion, she came out and found the 54-year-old man inside her home.
She said the man looked at her, said “girls,” and physically touched her — that’s when she said she got physical back. She fought him and pushed him outside the house.
A neighbor, the father of the 9-year-old girl, ran outside after hearing the screams and pinned the 54-year-old man down. A second neighbor helped hold him down until police arrived.
The investigation is ongoing.
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