{"id":23189,"date":"2013-01-24T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/thief-drives-off-baby-car-123525778.html"},"modified":"2013-01-24T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:30:54","slug":"baby-in-stolen-car-thief-drives-off-with-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/baby-in-stolen-car-thief-drives-off-with-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Thief Drives Off With Seven-Week-Old Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A mother said she was “shocked” after a car thief drove off with her newborn as the father stood near by talking to a friend.<\/p>\n

Thomas Moulsdale, 24, suddenly became aware someone had snuck in the driver’s side door and was driving off with his seven-week-old son, Leo, on the back seat.<\/p>\n

He tried to open the passenger door shouting that his baby son was in the back but the thief drove on.<\/p>\n

The child’s mother Louise Waine said: “It made me feel sick. I didn’t know what to do…I was shocked and I just said stop and broke down. I said I don’t know where to look…”<\/p>\n

It was a frantic 15 minutes for Mr Moulsdale and his fiance before the child was found safe and well in the car, which had been left close to a pub.<\/p>\n

“Then we got a phone call…saying they’d found him…we shot down and I grabbed him out of the seat. I just felt ill. I can’t believe someone would do that,” she said.<\/p>\n

Police are now appealing for any witnesses to the drama – which happened in Moor Road in Orrell, Wigan at 7.35pm on Tuesday – to contact them.<\/p>\n

Detective Constable Brendan Greally, from Wigan CID, said: “We can only imagine the distress that the parents of this young baby must have gone through after their son was taken from them in this manner.<\/p>\n

“Thankfully, their nightmare was only short-lived after the baby was found safe and well inside the vehicle around 15 minutes later.”<\/p>\n

Police were told that the baby had been left in the abandoned blue Subaru Impreza on Maine Street, Billinge, by an anonymous caller.<\/p>\n

The thief is described as a white man in his 20s, wearing a dark-coloured hat, a dark hooded top and lighter-coloured trousers or tracksuit bottoms.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101<\/strong> or the independent charity Crimestoppers<\/strong> , anonymously, on 0800 555 111<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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