great ending to a terrible story........

[Guest saleen351]

SPRING LAKE, N.J. — A 6-year-old New Jersey girl was found alive and unharmed at a nearby mall Friday after being abducted from outside her home in broad daylight the day before.

Anna Cardelfe was dropped off Friday morning at Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, where security workers recognized her and called police. She was reunited with her family at an undisclosed location.

"They were hugging their child, and their child was hugging them," First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Robert Honecker said. The parents were very emotional and the scene "brought tears to the eyes of veteran detectives."

Honecker said Anna was "in good spirits. She is unharmed."

Police had no suspects in custody Friday and were searching for Anna's abductor. They released a sketch of a suspect and were investigating whether more than one person was involved.

AP

Michael Cardelfe, the father of Anna Cardelfe

A ransom note from the abductor was taped to a nearby flagpole. Honecker said neither authorities nor the family paid anything for the girl's return.

Anna, whose wealthy parents fled their home in New York for the Jersey Shore after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was kidnapped Thursday while playing in front of her new home.

She was outside with a sibling and friends at 11:45 a.m. when a man drove up and coaxed her into his black, four-door car by showing her an unknown object, First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Robert Honecker said.

The man then pulled the girl inside and drove off, authorities said. The family's baby sitter was in the house at the time.

A 4-year-old friend who was playing with Anna described the kidnapper as a white man in his 30s. The abductor made no move for the younger girl, who was interviewed by people trained in getting information from young witnesses.

The children were home on a typical school day because of a scheduled teachers union conference.

"We want Anna back safely and will do whatever it takes to get Anna back to us," Michael Cardelfe, Anna's father, said during a news conference Thursday night.

Cardelfe is president of ARB Oil Inc., a commodities trading firm on the New York Mercantile Exchange. His wife, Lynn Tesoro, is a public relations executive who has held top positions in the apparel industry.

She also was close friends with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. When the Kennedys died in a plane crash off the Massachusetts coast in 1999, Tesoro spoke fondly of her friend in a lengthy interview with People magazine.

The family formerly used the New Jersey house on weekends, but moved there full time following the attack on the World Trade Center near their home in lower Manhattan.

On Sept. 11, Tesoro had described fleeing to New Jersey on a ferry after the hijacked planes struck as she dropped off her children at school. Besides Anna, the couple have two sons and a daughter.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[pipdaddy]

Thanks for the update. I read about this story this morning and it really pissed me off. hopefully they catch the punk who did it.....

[eviljav666]

Yeah that great news..i was reading about that story.

She is very Lucky..Most of the time those story's have Tragic endings!!

[pipdaddy]

SPRING LAKE, New Jersey (AP) -- A man accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl from the front yard of her home last week was arrested Monday at a hospital where he was being treated for a drug overdose, authorities said.

Barry Sherman, 37, a self-employed photographer from Neptune City, was charged with kidnapping, terroristic threats and child endangerment.

Authorities said it appeared the man had attempted suicide. He was under guard at the Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, said Kevin Donovan, special agent in charge of the FBI's New Jersey office.

The girl was reunited with her family one day after being kidnapped.

The girl, Anna Cardelfe, was playing in front of her Spring Lake home Thursday when she was lured and then forced into a car. The next day, she was found unharmed at a mall in Eatontown, about 10 miles from her home.

The kidnapper had called police twice Thursday to demand $175,000 in ransom, but never received any money.

Sherman was found unconscious Sunday by park rangers at Sandy Hook National Recreation Area, authorities said. After he was taken to the hospital, authorities said his sister found a note he had written confessing to the kidnapping.

Anna's family had recently moved from Battery Park City in New York following the September 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the nearby World Trade Center.