India, Feb. 22 -- A 16-year-old girl has narrated how she bravely fought off a creep from New York who tried to abduct her last week in South Miami. The teenager was walking in a suburban neighborhood with her friends just after midnight when 32-year-old Brian Gamboa pulled up beside her in a car. He then tried to force her into his vehicle.

"A guy came out of the car, he approached me and started attacking me by my shoulders and the back of my head," the teen, Valerie, told CBS News Miami. "I fought back - I threw my phone at him, I started kicking him, I started screaming, I started punching him."

The teen said she fought hard when Gamboa tried to push her to the ground. "I dragged him down with me," Valerie added. "Then I kicked him ...