When we first met Goldy Hillel, she was bloody and bawling in a Virginia Beach 7-11 parking lot in shambles because her year and half old daughter Naomi had been kidnapped by 24-year-old Matthew Nash.
Goldy says Nash walked quickly out of the 7-11, straight toward her as she was pumping gas and got behind the wheel.
"Not a word, not a word. Even when I was telling him, screaming to him take everything, leave my baby, she's in the car, please, nothing"
Instead, Nash took off in the van but Goldy didn't let him go without a fight.
"Ya know, it's like a lioness, we protect our kids, that's all we have in this world"
Goldy was left bruised and battered because she held onto the van for dear life.
"He swerved and I just flew off and I was just screaming at him. I was screaming at everybody, he's got the baby, he's got the baby and running after him"
For two hours, a lifetime for Goldy, little Naomi was missing.
So, the mom who was going through hell turned to heaven for help...
"I just had a straight line all I did was talk to God, that's all I did, was beg and pray that she's not hurt and that she's not scared and that she doesn't feel anything, that she doesn't know anything and that he brings her back safe and he just has the common sense to put her somewhere safe"
Nash did stop and drop Naomi off at a Newport News hotel. Goldy says getting her little girl with the big blue eyes back is a gift she'll never forget.
"Thank God, thank God, thank God that he heard our prayers and he brought her home" "When he took her it was like someone took my soul, when I saw her again it was like someone put it back"
Goldy says everything happened so fast it's really all still a blur. But she says one thing sticks out in her mind Matthew Nash seemed confused, almost out of it when he got into her van.
She says it was like he didn't even here her screams to not take her baby.
Goldy says Nash walked quickly out of the 7-11, straight toward her as she was pumping gas and got behind the wheel.
"Not a word, not a word. Even when I was telling him, screaming to him take everything, leave my baby, she's in the car, please, nothing"
Instead, Nash took off in the van but Goldy didn't let him go without a fight.
"Ya know, it's like a lioness, we protect our kids, that's all we have in this world"
Goldy was left bruised and battered because she held onto the van for dear life.
"He swerved and I just flew off and I was just screaming at him. I was screaming at everybody, he's got the baby, he's got the baby and running after him"
For two hours, a lifetime for Goldy, little Naomi was missing.
So, the mom who was going through hell turned to heaven for help...
"I just had a straight line all I did was talk to God, that's all I did, was beg and pray that she's not hurt and that she's not scared and that she doesn't feel anything, that she doesn't know anything and that he brings her back safe and he just has the common sense to put her somewhere safe"
Nash did stop and drop Naomi off at a Newport News hotel. Goldy says getting her little girl with the big blue eyes back is a gift she'll never forget.
"Thank God, thank God, thank God that he heard our prayers and he brought her home" "When he took her it was like someone took my soul, when I saw her again it was like someone put it back"
Goldy says everything happened so fast it's really all still a blur. But she says one thing sticks out in her mind Matthew Nash seemed confused, almost out of it when he got into her van.
She says it was like he didn't even here her screams to not take her baby.
