A Florida intercourse offender was arrested after he allegedly tried to “buy” an 8-year-old woman for $100,000 at a grocery retailer, police mentioned.
Hellmuth Kolb, 85, approached the kid’s mother at a Winn Dixie in Port Orange Thursday and made the indecent proposal, according to the Port Orange Police Department.
Kolb was on probation and was banned from having contact with youngsters after making an attempt to buy a different child in Walmart in 2018, in keeping with WESH-TV.
Lauren Benning advised the station she thought Kolb was only a lonely outdated man when he approached her and her daughter.
“He simply got here up and he began making feedback about how fairly she was and the way good her dancing was and the way he might by no means have youngsters and he needed youngsters,” Benning reportedly mentioned.
However the interplay quickly took a darkish flip, Benning advised the station.
“Approached me within the car parking zone. Really chased me down within the car parking zone and mentioned ‘hey, I need to make a take care of you.’ I’d like to purchase her for $100,000. I used to be in full shock.”
“He must be locked up and never allowed to be round our youngsters,” she reportedly mentioned.