It was a typical day at a Florida airport when a mother and her crying four-year-old son was standing at a check-in counter on Sept. 2. When a woman offered to help console the boy, the mother initially let her, but what the woman is accused of doing next had the mother and nearby witnesses scrambling.
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Alvina Agba, a 23-year-old Black woman, tried to help a crying toddler who was with his mother at the Miami International Airport, according to police. The mom allowed Agba to hold him, but she allegedly did more than that. Law & Crime reported she allegedly walked away from the counter with the boy still in her arms.
The police report said the mother followed Agba and demanded her son back before Agba allegedly refused, telling her, “No, this is my child.” Agba reportedly sat down on the floor, wrapped her legs around the boy, and pushed the boy’s mother away. Witnesses were able to grab the boy from Agba, whom police say is from England, but she allegedly tried to yank him back. WPBF reports the boy’s mother was allegedly shoved by Agba during the shuffle.
“I ran over to see what was going on. When I got close, I noticed a woman on the floor, strongly gripping the little boy,” witness Naylet Montano, who pried the toddler from Agba, told CBS News. “In that moment, I realized the boy was in danger. The woman on the ground got up and tried to take the boy back from me. I wouldn’t let her.” She described how she “ran behind the counter and crouched down to protect the boy. She tried to get under the counter. But when police got there, she ran away.”
Agba was later found at Checkpoint 5 and taken into custody after allegedly leaving the area. She claimed she was taking the toddler to see a rainbow on a wall to help quiet him, but told police she “didn’t remember” what happened after the boy’s mother asked for her son back. Agba allegedly claimed “[s]he only did it because God told her to do it.”
Agba, who is currently held at Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation, has been charged with interference of custody, which is a felony, and two misdemeanor counts of battery.
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