This is just too fucked up.

Driver Saves Girls From Possible Attack


TAMPA Seeing "a sweaty guy" chasing two teenage girls down North 15th Street Friday morning, Sharonda Wilson said she knew she had to help.

It was about 5:50 a.m. when Wilson, 27, pulled over her 1998 Buick after seeing the girls running in the street. Their backpacks were on the ground behind them, and "they were screaming their lungs out," she said. "Something told me to stop."
Wilson quickly popped open the car door and called to the girls, "Get in! Hurry up! Get in!"

The girls, sisters ages 14 and 15, scrambled inside, crying and shaking. Angry, Wilson said she confronted the man.
"I'm, like, all in his face," she recalled. She asked him, "What are you doing? What are you going to do with them?"
Tampa police asked the man those same questions Friday after an officer driving past the confrontation noticed Wilson yelling and intervened.

Police charged Noel Jerry Toledano, 41, of Tampa with two misdemeanor counts of assault, saying he accosted the girls at the bus stop for Wharton High School.
The girls had been walking to the bus stop on North 15th Street near 113th Avenue when Toledano approached, yelling, "Come here, I'm going to get you," according to police.
He chased them for about 200 feet before Wilson found them, police said.
"We're very grateful to this good Samaritan for providing safety and shelter to these two girls," police Maj. George McNamara said.
McNamara did not identify the teenagers.

Toledano, whose apartment is near the bus stop, was held on $500 bail at Orient Road Jail Friday afternoon.
McNamara said Toledano told detectives he began chasing the girls because he thought one of them was his girlfriend, whom he hadn't seen in two days.
Wilson said he told her he was a preacher and was looking for his wallet. She told him, "You're a liar."

Wilson is the mother of two sons and an aunt to four nieces. She said she has been disturbed by news reports about children being molested, particularly a child raped in a Sulphur Springs rental home recently.
When she saw the frantic girls, she said she thought nothing of her own safety, just theirs.
"There's too many little girls being raped and killed," she said. "I'm just glad I could help. What if I hadn't been there?"