A shocking, brazen kidnapping caught on camera outside Philadelphia last Sunday led the week's crime news.
Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was missing for three days until she was found in a parking lot in Jessup, Maryland on Wednesday.
Her attacker was 37-year old Delvin Barnes, who later confessed to the crime.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CHARLES RAMSEY, PHILADELPHIA POLICE COMMISSIONER, SAYING:
"He's a vicious predator. He's off the street. And hopefully he'll be in jail for the rest of his life."
Freeland-Gaither was reunited with her family Thursday. Her mother expressed her gratitude to the police who helped find her daughter.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) KEISHA GAITHER, VICTIM'S MOTHER, SAYING:
"He sat in my kitchen in front of me, and told meI'm bringing your daughter home, I'm brining your daughter home. I said allright, he said, no, I'm brining your daughter home. And he brought my baby home."
In California, another family found at least som
