Man Abducts 3-Year-Old Child After Pepper Spraying, Burning The Child's Mother With Cigarette

A man has been accused of abducting a 3-year-old child after allegedly assaulting the toddler's mother by pepper spraying her and burning her with a cigarette in Manassas, Virginia on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

The accused, identified as Abraham Cinto Jr., was reportedly with a 23-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son at a park in Manassas, Virginia on Tuesday, Aug. 30, before the alleged kidnapping. At the park, Cinto Jr. got into a verbal altercation with the child's mother and then took off with the toddler without the woman's permission, WJLA reported.

Seeing Cinto Jr. walk away with her child, the woman followed him and attempted multiple times to wrestle her kid back from him. However, he easily overpowered her attempts at fighting back.

Cinto Jr. allegedly proceeded to assault her by burning her with a cigarette, as well as spraying pepper spray at her and even grabbing her by the neck. As the suspect fled the scene, the woman alerted the police about the incident.

Later, one of the woman's family members located Cinto Jr. with the boy at a playground and forcefully took custody of the boy. Cinto Jr. immediately left the area after the confrontation and has been on the run ever since. The suspect had already fled the scene when law enforcement arrived, ABC News 4 reported.

The woman suffered minor injuries in the assault. However, the boy was physically unharmed.

The officers have obtained an arrest warrant for Cinto Jr. and have launched a manhunt to nab him at the earliest. He is wanted for abduction, assault with a caustic substance, assault & battery, and larceny. Cinto Jr. is described as a Hispanic male with black hair and brown eyes, 5-feet-4 in height, and weighing 171 pounds.

In a similar but unrelated incident, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl has been reported dead after she was allegedly kidnapped and buried alive in a pit by her parents' neighbor in the Salem Tabri area of Ludhiana, Punjab, India on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021.

The accused, identified as Neelam, 35, reportedly abducted Dilroz Kaur, 2, the daughter of her neighbor Harpreet Singh, motivated by an old rivalry and a hunger for revenge, and proceeded to bury the toddler alive after digging a pit in a field, Latin Times reported.

The authorities launched an investigation into the incident after they received a call from Singh at around 3:15 p.m. on Nov. 28 alerting them that his daughter Kaur had gone missing.

When the investigators checked CCTV footage from the nearby areas, they spotted Neelam peeling out with the toddler on her scooter. Following the discovery, the officers detained Neelam and interrogated her. During the questioning, the suspect finally confessed to the crime and said that she had buried the girl in a pit in a field in Salem Tabri.