Dad 'Wanted to Kill' Man Who Found His Lost Toddler

A Good Samaritan was branded a child predator and had his photo plastered across social media over the weekend, all because he tried to help a lost child. 

A man was visiting with friends at a softball game in Lakeland, Fla., on Saturday when he noticed a toddler looking lost, reports WFLA. Authorities say the man began walking with the 2-year-old girl, hoping she would point out her parents. But as the pair neared a playground, the girl's father suddenly appeared and was enraged. 

After a friend grabbed the girl, her father says he punched the stranger five or six times in the face, per WTSP. "I saw this man with my daughter in his hands walking toward the parking lot. What would you do?" he said to WFLA. "I wanted to kill him!"

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