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Newcastle Primark pair admit toddler kidnap | Newcastle Primark pair admit toddler kidnap |
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Two teenage girls have pleaded guilty to kidnapping a toddler in a Primark store. | Two teenage girls have pleaded guilty to kidnapping a toddler in a Primark store. |
The two-year-old girl went missing from the shop on Northumberland Street in Newcastle city centre in April. | |
She was found an hour and 45 minutes later after being tracked via CCTV cameras to a park in the suburb of Gosforth, about three miles away. | She was found an hour and 45 minutes later after being tracked via CCTV cameras to a park in the suburb of Gosforth, about three miles away. |
The girls, aged 13 and 14, were also charged with shoplifting dummies, baby milk and a bottle. | The girls, aged 13 and 14, were also charged with shoplifting dummies, baby milk and a bottle. |
They had been charged with kidnap with the intention of committing a sexual offence, but the prosecution at a youth court hearing in North Shields accepted a plea to the alternative charge of kidnap. | |
The pair from Tyneside, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted abducting the girl from the budget clothes store on 13 April. |