A Staten Island family was on edge Friday after a brazen burglar tried to break into their New Dorp house twice in broad daylight, and police were looking for the suspect and his female accomplice.

The woman who lives in the New Dorp house with her two children, and who asked to keep her identity secret, said the two burglary attempts took place within an hour.

She first received a call from her children at 11 a.m., and they said they heard strange footsteps inside the house. They said an alarm then scared off the suspect.

Shortly afterwards, the mother returned to the house and heard screaming coming from her 12-year-old daughter's second-floor room. The same suspect had allegedly climbed up the side of the house and was trying to enter through an open window.

"[My daughter] just kept saying, 'Mommy, mommy,' and so my son and I ran upstairs and she was hysterical, crying," said the mother. "Her screen was open, she had opened it because she heard something, so she went to look out and that's where she saw the same guy that had left earlier, in the matter of a half-hour. And he grabbed at her arm and yanked at her arm to try to pull her out the window, and then he jumped and left."

Police believed the suspect only wanted to rob the house and was not attempting to kidnap the girl.

Nevertheless, the mother said her children and her did not feel safe anymore in their own house.

"She doesn't want to sleep here, she doesn't want to live here any longer," said the mother. "We've been here for not even a year and this is the second time somebody's tried to break into our house."

The suspect is described as a male in his 20s with a scar over his right eye, who was with a female accomplice in her 20s.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.