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Primark kidnapping: Two girls, aged 13 and 14, admit taking toddler from Newcastle shop | Primark kidnapping: Two girls, aged 13 and 14, admit taking toddler from Newcastle shop |
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Two teenage girls have admitted kidnapping a toddler from a Primark store in Newcastle. | Two teenage girls have admitted kidnapping a toddler from a Primark store in Newcastle. |
The girls, aged 13 and 14, took the two-year-old child from the busy shop in Northumberland Street on 13 April. | The girls, aged 13 and 14, took the two-year-old child from the busy shop in Northumberland Street on 13 April. |
She was found in a park three miles away in Gosforth an hour and 45 minutes later after the girls were tracked using CCTV. | |
Police said the girl had been with her mother when she was reported missing at 5pm, triggering a city-wide search. | |
The defendants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted the abduction at North Shields youth court on Tuesday. | The defendants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted the abduction at North Shields youth court on Tuesday. |
The girls also admitted two counts of theft for stealing dummies from Boots, and a baby bottle and milk from Sainsbury’s. | The girls also admitted two counts of theft for stealing dummies from Boots, and a baby bottle and milk from Sainsbury’s. |
They had been charged with kidnap with the intention of committing a sexual offence but it was discounted after the prosecution accepted a plea to the alternative charge of kidnap. | They had been charged with kidnap with the intention of committing a sexual offence but it was discounted after the prosecution accepted a plea to the alternative charge of kidnap. |
At a previous hearing, it emerged that the girls had unsuccessfully tried to grab another small child, who was also black, at Primark on the same day. | |
Lee Poppett, prosecuting, told a previous youth court hearing at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court that the the failed abduction happened two hours earlier in the same Primark store. | |
Her mother said one of the teenagers approached her and described her daughter, saying she was by the counter, but that she found the child in the opposite direction. | |
In April, a court hearing heard that a tablet computer was found containing searches for “rape”, “people getting raped”, “young people getting raped”, “poor little thing getting kidnapped and raped”. | |
Mr Poppett said the girls had been known to social services for “quite some time” and had gone missing from home on a number of occasions. | |
Additional reporting by PA | Additional reporting by PA |