Police have confirmed a 21-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly stole a car with a young girl still inside.
The Rosewood man handed himself in to police this afternoon.
Police allege he approached a black Ford Falcon sedan in a supermarket carpark in Laidley about 7pm last night, dragging a 41-year-old woman from the driver’s seat by her hair.
The mother was able to pull one of her daughters, a nine-year-old, from the car, but was unable to reach her three-year-old daughter. Her 12-year-old son was in the supermarket at the time.
The man sped off with the young girl still inside. She was later found unharmed by the side of a nearby road.
“The child was subsequently left two streets away and was located by a passer-by. As you can imagine, the children and the mother were traumatised,” Detective Inspector Dave Isherwood said.
The man got back into the stolen vehicle after dumping the child, allegedly crashing it into a fence in a neighbouring street and driving away.
Police later found the sedan abandoned at an address on Oakleigh Colliery Road in Rosewood this morning.
He was charged with abduction and armed robbery and will face court at a later date.