The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxAn 11-year-old girl fought off a knife-wielding sex offender who jumped out of a van in a depraved bid to abduct her.
Surveillance footage captures the suspect pull up in the white vehicle next to a bus stop in West Pensacola, Florida, USA, at around 7am local time on Tuesday.
The man, who sheriffs later claimed was Jared Paul Stanga, ran towards her with a knife in his hand, when the girl got to her feet and tried to escape, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
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