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This is the shocking moment a women was filmed picking a stranger's toddler up out of a shopping trolley and trying to walk off with him.
Police have launched an appeal to find the woman after the attempted abduction in an Asda in Bexleyheath, south east London.
The mother was at the checkout when the female suspect lifted the child out of the shopping trolley.
She then started to walk away with the 18-month-old boy before the mother intervened and grabbed her child back.
The suspect is described as being Asian and about 65 years old.
She had black hair in a ponytail and was wearing glasses during the incident, on Sunday April 23.
A police spokesperson said: 'The mother of the child was at the checkout when a female lifted the child out of the shopping trolley and started to walk away with him.
'The mother obviously intervened and grabbed her child back.'