ANOTHER young girl, who bravely stood up to a man who tried to abduct her when she was only 11, has spoken about her ordeal for the first time.

Rosie Braiden, now 15, boldly gave up her right to anonymity to back The Press' Change It! campaign so that child snatchers can be put on the Sex Offenders' Register.

The teenager described the horrifying moment when a stranger tried to take her away and said: "People like him should be stopped from trying to hurt children in future."

Rosie follows in the footsteps of 13-year-old Natalie Hick, from Strensall, who also agreed to be named in The Press to tell how 52-year-old Terry Delaney tried to snatch her from a bus stop in Acomb.

Both girls are supporting Change It! which calls on Home Secretary John Reid to add child abduction and attempted abduction to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 - so offenders can be banned from working or mixing with youngsters and put on the register.

Rosie and her mum, Jackie, were helped by the charity Phoenix Survivors, which is working with The Press, three years ago - but ministers failed to change the law after hearing of her case.

The teenager had just started secondary school and was getting used to walking about on her own when convicted paedophile Gary Brown targeted her at St John's Wood station, in London, in March 2003.

"I had just used the phone box to try to ring my mum," she said.

"This man came up to me and said it didn't work, but I told him it was fine.

"I went to sit on a wall to wait for my mum. But he came over, sat next to me, and started talking to me.

"He told me I should, Come with him,' and started pretending he was a policeman from the child protection unit.

"I was really scared because I could tell he wasn't a policeman at all."

Brave Rosie stood her ground and thankfully two traders, who worked on a newspaper and a flower stall nearby, came over to rescue her.

Rosie, who lives in Brent, gave a video statement to police, but was put through the ordeal of a trial and remembered the difficulty of having to answer questions from Brown's barrister.

She said: "I feel able to talk about it publicly for the first time now I'm older. And I hope it will help the campaign so that the law can be changed."

A judge was unable to put Brown on the Sex Offenders' Register for his conviction of attempted abduction even though Brown had previously been on it for three years for abusing four little girls while working at their home as a window fitter.