A man has been charged with the abduction of a child in Queensland.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00A court has heard how a man accused of stealing a child on the Sunshine Coast is also accused
00:08of threatening police.
00:10Authorities released an AMBER alert after an 8-year-old girl was taken from a facility
00:14in Maroochydore, not far from where we're standing, earlier yesterday.
00:20She was found safe more than 7 hours later and 40km away at Iwavale.
00:25A 44-year-old Koolum man has been charged with child stealing and trespass offences.
00:31Police say the man and child are known to each other.
00:34Magistrate Rodney Madsen refused the man's bail request, saying he was allegedly caught
00:38on CCTV taking the child and later making threats towards police.
00:43He also told the court police had to negotiate with the man before the child was released.
00:49The 44-year-old is due to return to Maroochydore Magistrate's Court in March next year.
00:55For more information visit www.fema.gov