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| Newcastle Primark pair admit toddler kidnap | Newcastle Primark pair admit toddler kidnap |
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| Two teenage girls who kidnapped a toddler from a Primark store had attempted to snatch another child from the shop on the same day. | |
| The two-year-old girl went missing from the shop on Northumberland Street in Newcastle city centre in April. | 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 pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to kidnap. | |
| It can now be reported the duo, aged 13 and 14, had tried unsuccessfully to trick another girl's mother on 13 April. | |
| In both cases they picked on black children. | |
| 'Assessment of dangerousness' | |
| The previous hearing in April heard a tablet computer was found containing searches for "rape", "people getting raped", "young people getting raped", "poor little thing getting kidnapped and raped". | |
| District Judge Roger Elsey adjourned the case for reports to be made, saying there was some "very concerning material on the tablet that was recovered". | |
| "That is going to have to inform the assessment of dangerousness," he said. | |
| The teenagers from Tyneside also admitted 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. | 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 girls will appear before the same court on 4 July but may be sentenced at crown court. | |
| They were remanded into the care of the local authority. |