Florida
85-year-old Florida man held for attempting to 'buy' minor girl
New York/IBNS: A Florida sex offender was arrested after he allegedly tried to “purchase” an eight-year-old girl for $100,000 at a grocery store, police said.
Hellmuth Kolb, 85, approached the child’s mother at a Winn Dixie in Port Orange on Thursday and made the indecent proposal, the Washington Post reported.
Kolb was on probation and was banned from having contact with children after trying to buy a different child in Walmart in 2018, according to WESH-TV.
Lauren Benning told the station she thought Kolb was just a lonely old man when he approached her and her daughter, the report said.
“He just came up and he started making comments about how pretty she was and how good her dancing was and how he could never have children and he wanted children,” Benning reportedly said.
But the interaction soon took a dark turn, Benning told the station.
“Approached me in the parking lot. Actually chased me down in the parking lot and said ‘Hey, I want to make a deal with you. I’d like to buy her for $100,000.' I was in complete shock."
“He needs to be locked up and not allowed to be around our children,” the report quoted the mother as saying.
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