A Temecula woman narrowly escaped a terrifying ordeal when a toy donation turned into a violent kidnapping attempt.
“I figured I was done for. I was either going to die or I was going to be trafficked or kidnapped or something,” said Erin Quinn.
It turned out to be a kidnapping.
Quinn thought she was meeting a donor for her toy drive on Dec. 18 in Winchester. She had arrived at a home on Memory Lane after texting with a woman who claimed to be elderly and unable to drive.
“I go up to the door, leave my car unlocked, and I am waiting at the door trying to get this lady to answer, but nobody is answering,” Quinn said.
Moments later, the woman texted Quinn to wait in her car, saying her caregiver would deliver the toys. That’s when things took a horrifying turn.
“So I go to my car, about to get in, go to sit down, and someone grabs my hair and starts tasing me on the side of the head,” she said. “During that time, my brain was jolting like crazy, and I literally thought I was going to die or pass out. Once she took the taser off my head, she made me drive.”