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The girl was rescued July 9 in Long Beach after a passerby called 911 to report seeing her hold up the piece of paper with the handwritten desperate plea for help.
Texas man pleads guilty to kidnapping teen found in California with a “Help Me!” note
Prosecutors say the suspect pleaded guilty to kidnapping and admitted in a plea agreement that he sexually assaulted the victim.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl who was rescued in California when a passerby saw her hold up a “Help Me!” sign in a parked car.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California reported that the Texas man who pleaded guilty was 62-year-old, Steven Robert Sablan, of Cleburne, Texas.