“I ran down to them. I grabbed (the girl’s) arm and grabbed her around her stomach. (Spasogevich-Lee) was holding onto her wrist. I yanked (the girl) away from him. I started to run back to my house,” the 12-year-old told police, according to the police report.

It states that Spasogevich-Lee called for the 4-year-old to come back to him, and the 12 -year-old replied, “No, she won’t.”

Meanwhile, another child from the neighborhood had run to the 4-year-old’s house to tell her parents what had happened.

According to the police report, the 4-year-old’s father came outside and saw the 12-year-old carrying his daughter to his house. Learning what happened, the father immediately called police.

Acting on instinctOn Monday, the 12-year-old girl, a seventh-grader at Lance Middle School, said she acted on instinct.

“I was scared that she could have been taken away,” she said, but said she wasn’t afraid for herself.

The girl said kids from the neighborhood, including the 4-year-old, often come to her yard to play, and she knew the girl and her family.

She said the child’s family were grateful, and that her grandfather “was just smiling” when he learned what she had done.