It doesn’t matter whether you’re walking down a dark alleyway or a busy street in broad daylight – it seems we need to be vigilant of would-be abductors at all times.

 

This has been proven in shocking fashion this week, through the story of the attempted abduction of a one-year-old in a pram, on Dublin’s Meath Street.

 

According to a report by Independent.ie, Sarah Conroy was out walking with her two daughters – two-year-old Amelia and one-year-old Hallie – on Tuesday evening, when a man approached Hallie’s buggy and tried to pull her out.

 

 

Initially, the man had tried to abduct a young boy walking with his mother: “I saw a black man coming back towards [the mother]. He grabbed the child’s wrist and the woman was screaming, ‘Get off my child, get off my child’.”

 

The man then turned his attention to Sarah and her girls, approaching the buggy and trying to pull Hallie out.

 

“Thank God the child was strapped in; otherwise, he would have taken her away,” a ‘shocked’ Sarah told the Independent.

 

 

When the man failed in his attempt, Sarah ran to a nearby butcher’s shop and contacted the gardaí.

 

An as yet unnamed 41-year-old man was arrested shortly after, and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

 

Sarah, meanwhile, has urged her fellow mums to be careful when out with their little ones in the city.

 

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