Man tries to abduct five-year-old girl

CHICAGO, IL — A man slapped a 5-year-old girl after attempting to abduct her on July 30 from a backyard in the North Mayfair neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

The girl was in her backyard between 4 and 4:30 pm in the 4800 block of North Kildare when a man in the alley started talking to her, according to a community alert from the Chicago Police.

The man told the girl to come with him and said he would give her chocolate coins. The girl walked halfway down the alley with the man before she realized he didn’t have any chocolate coins and started crying.

The man slapped the girl in the face and took her back toward her backyard before running away southbound in the alley.

The suspect was described as a short white man between 25 and 30 years old. He had light brown hair with facial stubble and was wearing pants and a red shirt.