A 31-year-old man will appear in court charged with child stealing after allegedly abducting a toddler from his cot in Brisbane while his family slept.
An amber alert was issued on Sunday morning after the horrified family of the 20-month-old woke to find their boy was missing from the home in Darra in the city’s southwest.
Police feared the boy was at significant risk with security footage showing a man wearing gloves and a medical mask pinching the toddler from his bed at 4.10am.
Footage also showed the man pacing up and down the street before allegedly entering the home.
The 31-year-old from Salisbury, who police say is known to the family, was arrested on Sunday by detectives and charged with child stealing and enter a dwelling with intent at night.
The family of the toddler said they didn’t realise the boy had been taken until 5am when his grandfather noticed the bedroom door was open.
“After we had searched the house we knew there was something wrong and we were straight onto police,” the grandfather, who cannot be named, told the Courier-Mail.
The family faced a six-hour nightmare before being told the toddler had been located at a Salisbury home later in the day, with the grandfather describing the relief at the news as “like fireworks going off”.
“Everyone was just really happy. All the family were here waiting and we were all just jumping and cheering that they had found him,” he said.
The 31-year-old will appear at the Richlands Magistrates Court on Monday.
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