Saved from a kidnapping

The Corvallis Gazette-Times recently included chilling testimony from a trial in which a woman explained how she was kidnapped in 1993, when she was 14 -- and how she escaped:

Tuesday’s witness, who said she had a photographic memory, detailed how a man approached her after he saw her in a northeast Portland grocery store. The man, who said his name was 'Dave,' asked her if she needed help. She was a runaway at the time, and although she said the man seemed nice, she told him that she was just going home.

Not long afterward, the man came sprinting after her, holding a gun. He forced her into his car and drove her to an area away from people. He asked her to take off her clothes, which she started to do, but then told him 'no.'

The woman said she started reciting the Lord’s Prayer aloud and prayed for God to forgive the man. God spoke back to her, she said, telling her to get out of the car.

She ran to a nearby store, where she watched her assailant drive back and forth. Finally, she called a friend.

The woman said she reported the kidnapping to police shortly afterward.

Thank God that she was saved from a worse trauma.