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| Newcastle Primark kidnap teenagers sentenced | Newcastle Primark kidnap teenagers sentenced |
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| Two girls who kidnapped a toddler from a Primark store have been sentenced to three years three months' detention. | |
| The two-year-old was found an hour and 45 minutes later after being tracked via CCTV cameras to a park about three miles away from the Newcastle store. | The two-year-old was found an hour and 45 minutes later after being tracked via CCTV cameras to a park about three miles away from the Newcastle store. |
| The girls, aged 13 and 14, admitted kidnap at an earlier hearing. | The girls, aged 13 and 14, admitted kidnap at an earlier hearing. |
| Sentencing them, the judge at Newcastle Crown Court said although the child came to "no actual harm", there had been intent, planning and enticement. | |
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| Just before the kidnap, in April, the teenagers, from Tyneside, had shoplifted dummies, baby milk and a bottle. | |
| They were initially charged with kidnap with the intention of committing a sexual offence but this was dropped after the prosecution accepted a plea to the alternative charge of kidnap. | |
| Internet searches on a tablet belonging to the younger girl included "rape", "people getting raped", "young people getting raped", "poor little thing getting kidnapped and raped". | |
| 'Psychological harm' | |
| Mr Justice Globe said the two girls put forward different accounts of the incident, but neither had explained to his satisfaction what actually happened. | |
| He said their accounts "produce more questions than answers", and rejected the proposition they had taken the child "for no reason... with no specific intent". | |
| "I bear in mind no physical harm was caused," he said. | |
| "However, the extensive psychological harm to her mother was devastating. She won't let her daughter out if her sight and won't let her go to nursery," | |
| He added that it was clear that some aspect of physical or sexual harm or exploitation would have been carried out. | |
| "It was the true reason as to why she was taken. Her [the mother's] fears are well founded." |