Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 8, 2021. It has since been updated. A 12-year-old girl narrowly escaped from the clutches of a kidnapper thanks to the quick thinking of a good Samaritan who intervened. Talking to KTLA, the child named Amy Martinez revealed that she was just walking on Main Street in Santa Ana to Lathrop Intermediate School when a woman who was described as homeless grabbed her out of nowhere. “I thought that I was never going to see my mom or my family again,” the youngster said of the 2018 incident. “She just came up to me and went like this,” Amy said, simulating a bear hug. “And then she started walking with me away.”