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The police accused a girl's parents of teaching her how to handle the "foreign danger" after she asked a man who had approached her to ask him for a "code word" when he was trying to seduce her in his pickup truck.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office issued a warning after the 11-year-old girl apparently countered a possible kidnapping.
A member of Parliament responded last Wednesday to a house in the North Pecan Creek neighborhood for reporting a luring attempt, officials said on Facebook.
"At 3:45 pm, an 11-year-old girl was walking with a friend near a neighborhood park when a man driving a white SUV parked next to them," the statement said. "The man told the girl that she [brother was] in a serious accident and she had to go with him. The child asked the man what was the "code word", but he did not know it and left. "
The girl's mother, Brenda James, said that she had received a crying call after the stranger had "tried to take it".
"My daughter called me crying and she told me that" one guy tried to take her, "said James at a press conference." He told her that her brother had a serious accident and that she had to go home with him.
"So, I just calmed her down and she told me that one guy had tried to take her and all my thoughts were then gone out the window." I got in my car and I went home, "she added.
But thanks to the family's use of a codeword, the child knew that it was better than not to accompany it.
"They know who can pick them up and who can not," James said. "But there is always this special situation where there may be someone whom they do not know or do not know well, that's why we created a code word."
Sheriff Mark Lamb praised the tactic and congratulated the parents for "having a code word and speaking to their children about the" danger of a stranger ".
"The mother of this child did a great job teaching a code word to her child, which potentially saved that girl's life," Lamb told ABC News.
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"We hope this publication will encourage parents to have this conversation and create a plan with their children, so that they know what to do if they find themselves in this situation," officials said.
According to the authorities, other children would have seen this SUV in the neighborhood, "going around the park several times a day".
"The man covered most of his face with his hand while he was talking to the girl to cover up anything to identify him," said the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, describing the Man in his forties with a short beard. "The SUV has been described as possibly similar to a Ford Explorer and we are asking people to stay alert and call PCSO at 520-866-5111 for information."
Callahan Walsh, an expert at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said children were escaping potential threats because of "something they had done voluntarily".
"Eighty percent of children manage to get away from their potential kidnapper because of something they have voluntarily done," said Walsh. "And that's kicking and screaming or using the code word."
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