Update: Robbery and abduction charges, Laidley
A man has been charged with a number of serious offences after a car was allegedly stolen from a mother with her young child still strapped in the seat at Laidley yesterday.
Police will allege the woman and her two daughters, aged 10 and 3, were sitting inside their vehicle in the carpark of a William Street supermarket around 7pm when a man approached them.
The man allegedly opened the driver’s side door and assaulted the woman before pulling her from the car by her hair.
The 41-year-old Laidley woman managed to get her 10-year-old daughter out of the car before the man allegedly drove off with the 3-year-old still inside the vehicle.
The man stopped the car in nearby Orton Street and allegedly left the child by the side of the road. She was not physically harmed.
The man then crashed the alleged stolen vehicle it into a fence in William Street, before driving away from the scene.
A 21-year-old Rosewood man has been charged with robbery with violence, abduction of a child under 16, assaults occasioning bodily harm, common assault, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, unlawful entry of vehicle, dangerous operation of a vehicle and wilful damage.
He is due to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court tomorrow.
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