Shocked, shocked, aren't we all shocked, lawsuit happy shocked! You're a man wanting to help a lost child at a shopping mall. Next thing you know, you're a "registered sexual offender". (They've got 53,000 of those in the sex obsessed capital of pornography, California.)
Would anyone of us try to help the man?
I know I would, because I have stopped to render aid after witnessing a car crash that saw a young lady driving a pretty heavy car knocked unconscious. In that incident there at least a dozen people who stopped, or came out of their houses, to help. One was a former Navy Medic, but he hung back. After the EMTs arrived, and I was speaking with him, and found out his past, I said "why the heck (well maybe not "heck") didn't you come up to help". His answer, I couldn't have done anything you weren't already doing. One person bought a blanket from her home to cover the possibly shockey girl. (She was moaning and bleeding from her ear, but not repsonsive to my questions.) She worked for the same company I did, by her badge, but in a different location. I never did find out how she came out. Must not have been too badly, since there was nothing in the paper about it later. That was about 1982.
About 1998, I witnessed another car wreck. This one a single car driver who lost control when changing lanes, crossed 6 or 8 lanes traffic, half of it coming in the opposite direction, then flipping end for end, and twisting, to land upside down. By the time I got stopped, there quite a few folks running to help him. I stayed long enough to see him unbuckle his seat belt and drop onto the roof, and then crawl out of the vehicle. By that time there was someone in scrubs with a black bag attending him. There was another that stopped, it's driver getting an orange traffic vest out of his trunk and proceeding to direct traffic. (He was a current or former officer in another jurisdiction at least 10 miles away.
So yes, people will stop. In Texas, but apparently not in Hartford CN.