It was the wife of the middleweight boxing champion who stopped the baby from being taken away.

The wife of a boxer who saved a one-year-old boy from being abducted from a stroller in Adachi-ku, Tokyo, wrote her thoughts on Twitter after receiving the report.

The message was posted by Mayu, the wife of Toyo Pacific middleweight champion Shito Takesako (31).

Using self-defense, he pulled the man away and held him down with his hands under his armpits.

According to reports, at around 11:30 a.m. on September 21, 2022, a mother in her 30s was pushing a stroller down a sidewalk in the Adachi neighborhood when a man in his 40s suddenly grabbed a boy from the stroller. tried to take it out. However, the stroller belt got stuck and the mother could not lift it, and the mother covered the boy and resisted.

According to an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Takenotsuka station, the man said he wanted to have a child of his own.

On the 21st, Mayu-san, who said he saved him from being abducted, cited a Fuji TV post on Twitter that two men who were nearby restrained him and another woman called 911. In reality, Mayu-san pushed the man away. He explained that he had pinned him to the ground and asked people around him to call 110 and help him.

On the 22nd, Fuji TV’s news program “Mezamashi 8” features the story of a woman believed to be Mayu and footage from a security camera that was obtained.

According to footage and other sources, the suspect’s mother was pushing a stroller several dozen yards behind him, and as he waited for a traffic light at an intersection, trouble broke out between the man and his mother. A woman who appears to be Mayu also pushed a stroller at an intersection and crossed the crosswalk, noticed trouble on the way, and turned around while pushing the stroller.

At first he thought he was arguing with his wife, but his mother repeatedly called out to him, “Help me!” Using her knowledge of self-defense, she pulled the man away and held him from behind with both hands under his armpits. It is said that a passing man on a bicycle and a customer who was at a nearby hair salon also rushed to arrest the man.