Women Rescue Abducted Child From Rapist In Harrowing Video
By: Art Nunymiss
Tags: Rape, Rape Culture, True Crime, London, Kadian Nelson

A London schoolgirl saw a kidnapping and her whole family leapt into action

Mitcham girl being abducted on the way to school.

While the rest of the world watched the American elections, an 11-year-old girl named Zian was looking out for her classmates.

Zian was walking to school through Mitcham, London early on November 3, 2020 when she saw a girl being led by a man with his hand over her mouth.

Mitcham, London abduction in progress

Quick-witted Zian called her mom, Christine, who came out of her gate to look. Christine saw them hurrying down the street and realized the girl was in trouble. Christine and her older daughter went around both sides of the street.

As seen in this video, a woman believed to be Zian’s older sister Ashanti confronted the man.

WOMAN: Let her go! What are you doing with her?

KIDNAPPER: Look, this is my sister, bro. Leave.

WOMAN: What are you doing with her?

KIDNAPPER: Bro, this is my family, bro. Leave me, bro.

WOMAN: Is that the same one that just walked past us, mum?

KIDNAPPER: That’s family, bro. [inaudible] with her.

WOMAN: So what are you doing in the corner with her? Are you okay?

The video shows the man with a girl pinned against a wall. As the woman, believed to be Zian’s sister Ashanti, advances, the man quickly takes the girl down the road with his arm again around her neck.

In the surveillance screen-shots of the initial abduction above, the girl is in a blue-gray coat and holding a light-blue backpack, while the man is in a black coat with a fur-lined hood. Zian, and later her mom and sister, could see that he had a yellow-gloved hand over her mouth, visible in the surveillance footage.

In the cell-phone video from the alley the man has already removed the girl from the street and allegedly assaulted her. Note that in the cell-phone video he has the girl’s backpack and she is wearing his black coat, which is so long it covers her hands. He has the same plain gray hoodie with the hood pulled up that he had on under the coat in the surveillance shots.

WOMAN: Hey, girl! Hey! Hey! I’m following you.

KIDNAPPER: Why are you fucking stalking me, bro?

At this point in the video the man has stopped walking and is facing the girl, holding her hands. As the woman catches up with them he hurries away.

WOMAN: Are you okay? Do you know him?

GIRL: No, I don’t know him. He stopped me just up there. [Inaudible] I’m really scared. I’m really scared.[inaudible] go to school [inaudible] thank you, thank you.

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Police spent the next 12 hours after that cell-phone video was shot encouraging Kadian Nelson to turn himself in for his own protection. Local people were searching for Nelson (who we must recall may not be the person in the videos, innocent until proven guilty). Personally I would not identify the man in the gray and red hoodie below as the one in the abduction video with that gray hoodie. As shown in the video below, whether he was the kidnapper or not, Kadian Nelson was in grave danger in the hours after that abduction.

Videos circulated of a man lying on the street which purported to be Nelson, having been “shot in the neck.” I will not link them, as Nelson was safely apprehended thanks to a tip from the community later that evening.

Nelson has been charged with rape and kidnapping.

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As a survivor this story heals my soul. I hate that the girl was attacked, that another life was changed in this disgusting and unfair way.

But I love that even though she was completely unable to help herself, other people stepped forward and saved her from some unknown tragedy. The kidnapper had already assaulted the girl and was likely removing her to a more private location. Had Zian, Ashanti, and their mom not cared, the girl might be dead now.

I truly did not like to hear the voice of Nelson’s mother, terrified and heartbroken, being pursued by an angry mob. She never touched the girl. She didn’t send him to do it, if he is the one from the video. Her suffering from this will never end.

But when I compare the way this sexual assault went to the way it always went when I was a girl, I feel like the world is really moving forward. This is the opposite of rape culture, where the entire community rallies around the innocent person who has been assaulted.

I’m glad the vigilantes didn’t get Nelson even if he is the kidnapper. Violence does not solve violence. Yet it warmed my heart to see so many local men want to kill him, made me think if the world had actually seen what happened to me, my life would have been very different. Some day soon maybe the world will understand and care.

People cared about this girl, enough to chase a kidnapper down. Nobody said the girl initiated it. The whole community worked as a team to protect children from a dangerous man. Nobody asked if she’d done things with boys before. Nobody called her a liar.