A Texas mom is traumatized after a man walked up to her shopping cart in a grocery store and tried to snatch her 14-month-old straight from it.
The chilling ordeal was captured on surveillance video where you can see the mother, Florence Monauer, standing by her cart in a Houston grocery store. She turned to look at an item on the shelf, and a moment later, she heard her shopping cart move. Moonier looked up to see a man pulling her baby out of the cart. “At no point did he talk to me. He never asked me to pick up my baby,” Monauer told CBS affiliate KHOU. “He said the strangest thing….‘I wanted to take you when your mom wasn’t looking.’”
Once the man saw she noticed he was holding the baby, he put the child back into the shopping cart. At first, Monauer wanted to give the man the benefit of the doubt, but after thinking about the incident for hours, she became more and more upset. “I was conditioned to be nice to people,” said the 33-year-old. “I don’t want to falsely accuse someone in case this guy was just awkward and didn’t understand boundaries.”
Later that day, Monauer called the police and filed a report. “For me, the crime of attempting to kidnap someone was completed the moment when he picked up my child with my back turned and without my consent,” she said. “He didn’t have a shopping cart, no merchandise,” Monauer continued. “The more I thought about it, the more creeped out I felt.” Houston Police are investigating the incident as a possible attempted abduction, but the man has yet to be identified or charged with a crime.
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