Police search for 2 in attempted baby abduction

Nassau County police are looking for a woman who tried to abduct another woman’s child in a department store restroom at the Green Acres Mall on Dec. 10. The suspect was seen on security camera footage leaving the store with a man.

According to police, a woman who was shopping at Kohl’s at 10:45 a.m. took her 18-month-old son into the first-floor restroom to change his diaper. As she did, another woman entered the restroom and said, “He is a beautiful baby.”

“I didn’t respond, and had a horrible feeling in my chest and stomach that something was wrong,” the victim wrote in a Facebook post on a community moms’ page later that day.

The victim told police that the woman opened the doors of all the stalls in the restroom, apparently checking to see if anyone else was there. The suspect, described as in her mid-40s and Hispanic, 5 feet 5 with long blond hair and wearing a blue jacket, a yellow shirt and a multi-colored skirt, then approached the victim, and said, “Give me the baby.”

She grabbed the child’s arm and repeated the demand, police said, before the victim yelled “No!” and hit the woman’s arm. The victim said she pushed the woman away, then ran past her out of the restroom and up an escalator, at the top of which she came across two women who directed her to store security.

The victim reviewed security camera footage and identified the suspect, who was seen with a white man in a business suit before the incident. The man appeared to direct the woman to follow the victim into the restroom.

The two suspects were seen leaving the store in a black livery vehicle, police said. The incident is under investigation. Police released images of the female suspect and the vehicle in which she and the man left.

“I have never in my life felt like I did today,” the victim wrote on Facebook. “Please be careful and don’t take your eyes off your kids for one second.”