Around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, near security area at the Miami airport, a woman was dealing with her crying four year old son whom she had gotten up super early for a flight.

23-year old Alvina Omisiri Agba from Luton, England, described as ‘British-Nigerian’, approached them and offered to soothe the boy. The mother handed him over briefly. She was a kind stranger! But once Agba was holding the child, she started walking away.

• The mother demanded her son back, and Agba declared, “No, this is my child”
  
• Agba wrapped her arms and legs around the boy, grabbed his leg, and shoved the mother away when she tried to reclaim him.
  
• The mother pulling on the child while Agba clung to him. The boy screamed loudly.

Miami Airport Security Checkpoint

An employee stepped in, pulled the boy free and took him behind the ticket counter to protect him. Agba chased them and tried to crawl under the counter. Three passengers, seeing this, positioned themselves between Agba and the employee so that the abductor couldn’t gain access to the child.

Airport personnel called 911, but Agba fled the scene. She was located at Checkpoint 5 in the airport and arrested. The boy sustained deep scratches to his neck but was ok. The family made their flight.

Miami Airport

Agba told officers she took the child because “God told her to do it,” claiming she believed a rainbow wall in the terminal would calm him. She insisted she wasn’t drunk, and said she remembered very little of the incident.

She turns out to be an English teacher in Costa Rica. She was charged with interference with custody and two counts of battery and was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond set at $3,500.

(HT: Joe R.)