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Fort Worth Police have released the name and a photo of the 8-year-old girl who was kidnapped earlier today.

Salem Sabatka is 4-feet-5-inches tall and 56 pounds, police said.

According to police, a woman was walking with her 8-year-old child when a suspect in a car "approached them and grabbed the child," police said.

The description of the suspect is too vague at this time.

The mother jumped in the car to get her daughter back, but the suspect shoved the mother out and drove away, police said.

The mother then called the police, who are still investigating and are actively searching for the suspect.
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I am so sad about this. She and her mom were taking a daylight walk in their neighborhood when his happened. A man snatched the baby, and even though she tried to get her back he shoved her mom out of the car: the terror both of them must have felt.

And if you’ve been here any length of time you know that Salem is almost certainly dead, after things happening to her that I don’t even want to imagine.
 
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An eight-year-old girl snatched off the street in front of her mother was found safe seven hours later in a Texas hotel room before police arrested a 51-year-old suspect in her kidnapping.

Police discovered Salem Sabatka at a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, at around 2am Sunday less than eight miles from where she was abducted seven and a half hours earlier.

The youngster had been out on a walk with her mother Saturday evening in Fort Worth's Ryan Place neighborhood when a man grabbed the girl and put her in his car.

An Amber Alert was issued for Salem, who is 4'5", shortly after her abduction, describing the suspect as a 'light skinned black male of skinny build' and the car as a dark gray four-door sedan with alloy wheels.

The alert included a photo of Salem wearing the same shirt she had on when she was taken.

Two citizens reported seeing a car that matched the Amber Alert description in the parking lot of the WoodSprings Suites hotel in Forest Hill and contacted authorities.

Officers dispatched to the hotel determined which room the suspect was staying in and breached the door.

Salem was reportedly found in good condition but was taken to a local hospital to be checked out, Officer Buddy Calzada said at the press conference early Sunday.

Police have not released the name of the suspect but said he is a 51-year-old male who is not related to Salem.
 
The man accused of abducting an 8-year-old girl as she walked with her mother in a Fort Worth neighborhood over the weekend is now in the custody of the FBI.

An FBI spokesman confirmed Michael Webb was transferred from Fort Worth police to FBI custody Tuesday morning.
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The FBI spokesman could not provide details on further charges, but more information would be provided after Webb makes a court appearance and his complaint is unsealed.

"You can assure the public that Mr. Webb has not bonded out of jail or been released," the spokesman said in a news release to NBC 5.
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Hours after Michael Webb changed his mind about pleading guilty to the kidnapping of an 8-year-old Fort Worth girl, a federal grand jury indicted him on a count of kidnapping, paving the way for the case to possibly go to trial.

Michael Webb, wearing an orange jumpsuit with his hands and feet shackled, had arrived in a federal courtroom Wednesday morning with plans to plead guilty to one county of kidnapping.

“He didn’t have a plea deal,” said Erin Dooley, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. “He was just pleading open to the charges against him, which sometimes happens whenever evidence is overwhelming. Defendants plead open in hopes that gets them some leniency.”

Federal Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cureton then announced that, at the request of the parties, the hearing would be continued until 9:30 a.m. June 26.

Dooley said later Wednesday morning that Webb “elected not to plead guilty this morning.”

She said she did not know if Webb still intends to plead guilty in the case at next week’s hearing.

“Sometimes defendants get cold feet. They just need a little bit more time,” Dooley said. “Maybe it was something else. I don’t know.”

Hours later, court records show, a federal grand jury indicted Webb on one count of kidnapping, paving the way for his case to go forward to trial should he not take a plea in the case. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for Monday morning.
 
Well now Muriel you may feature him as human but his behavior was pure animal as he was on the hunt for prey, cleanly culled the child from the mother before making his get away.
Because of course, humans don't also do that. It may be behavior shared with certain animals, but it's very human too. Predators cull from the herd to eat, not rape.
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The federal case begins next week. Last week, Webb's attorneys said they wanted the case dismissed, arguing the search of his room, where police said he was found with the missing girl, was illegal because there was no probable cause to enter the room.

Forest Hill police visited Webb at his room earlier in the evening after a witness called police and said they saw him enter the hotel with a child. During their initial visit, Forest Hill police never spotted the child and left the room hours before she was eventually rescued by Fort Worth police.

The Forest Hill officer who searched the room but didn't uncover the girl was later fired.
He even looked in the refrigerator. Where was she hidden? Somewhere in the room? In the car?
 
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Love the grasping at straws his lawyers are trying. You can see how desperate they are.

Different tip, different agency controlling the scene. That RfD is going to get used as toilet paper in the courtroom's holding cell.
 
LOVE IT!!!!! I just have one question, well maybe 2. Where they on the sidewalk, if so she must've been walking on the curb side. You never, never, never let kids walk on the curb side. I'm happy they found her and her mother did try and rescue her instead of standing there
 
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Early Wednesday afternoon, Michael Webb was found guilty of kidnapping in the May 18 abduction. The jury made their decision in less than 15 minutes.

Webb still faces nine state charges of aggravated kidnapping, six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child (enhanced) and two counts of indecency with a child (habitual offender notice).

The trial began with Webb telling the judge that he wanted new defense attorneys, saying he had "differences" with them. The judge disagreed, saying he saw nothing wrong with how the attorneys have represented him to this point.

When asked by the judge whether he wanted to wear his orange jail jumpsuit or plain clothes for the trial, Webb responded by saying, "actually, I don't want to be here."

Both his attorneys and the judge responded by explaining how being present for the trial would be beneficial for him. Ultimately, Webb opted to waive his right to be in the courtroom and will instead be kept in a holding cell in another part of the building.

The jury made up of six men and seven women, including an alternate, was selected by noon.
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A man convicted of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl as she walked with her mother along a Texas street has been sentenced to life in prison.

A federal judge sentenced 51-year-old Michael Webb on Thursday in Fort Worth. A jury convicted him in September.

Webb admitted to the FBI that he snatched the girl on May 18 in Fort Worth while fighting off her mother.

Acting on a tip, police in nearby Forest Hill searched Webb’s hotel room early the next day but didn’t find her. Two hours later, after getting another tip, Forest Hill and Fort Worth police responded. The girl was found hidden in a laundry basket.
 
this story has the police video cam, graphic but nailed him harder
 
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