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Why should Victor Perez get involved? After all, he didn’t know any of the people in the news story. He didn’t know the family of a little girl who had been kidnapped off of the street. He’d never met the child. Why should he care?<\/p>\n

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Victor Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After all, Perez is an unskilled laborer. He’s a day worker — who most recently had been picking grapes to support his family. However, it was raining and he couldn’t work when he was watching the news about an 8-year-old named Elisa. He heard officials say they had issued an Amber Alert — since in cases such as this, the kidnapper usually kills his victim within 24 hours.\u00a0Perez watched the TV news account — including a surveillance video showing a battered pickup truck that police believed was used in the abduction.<\/p>\n

Then Perez noticed a pickup parked outside near his home. He watched it. He grew suspicious.<\/p>\n

But why should he get involved?<\/p>\n

As you can see from this video, he thanks God that he did. So do police.<\/p>\n

So does the family of an 8-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

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