Hunt on for missing baby

27th January 2012

Police in the town of Sosnowiec have launched a massive hunt after a six-month old girl was snatched from her pushchair.

The girl, called Magda, disappeared on Tuesday afternoon after her mother, perhaps due to an attack, lost consciousness. When the woman came to she found the pushchair empty and raised the alarm.

Police have called for witnesses in the desperate hunt to find the missing girl, but at press time have had little luck. The mother, who said she was attacked from behind, has been unable to provide information on the kidnapper other than he was tall and wore a hood.

“We’ve been unable to create an image of the attacker because we have no information,” said Miroslaw Miszuda, from the Sosnowiec prosecutor’s office. “The mother has been unable to provide a description so we don’t have anything to go on.”

He added that police were examining CCTV footage, which appears to show a man following the mother but it was unclear whether he was the kidnapper.

Police also examined the statements of Madga’s parents and said they were both “credible”.

Investigators have so far been unable find a motive as to why anybody would want to kidnap the girl, and the possibility that she was snatched to be held to ransom is dwindling as more time passes with no communication from those who took her.

Magda’s father said since his daughter went missing he had received scores of offers of help from friends and strangers.

“Friends call me and ask me what they can do they do to help, but also strangers contact me through the internet,” he said. “They organise themselves into groups of five or six cars, ask me where to go [to look] and print fliers. It’s good they do this because I can’t sleep and have to have something to do.”

In an effort to find the missing girl, authorities have offered a PLN 10,000 reward, and that amount is set to grow following public donations.

The television news programme Kontakt 24 said donations from individuals and companies may have raised the reward kitty to between PLN 50,000 to PLN 100,000.

“People keep coming to the station and saying they want to donate money to the reward for information on the missing girl,” Pawel Warchol from Sosnowiec police told news channel TVN 24. “At the moment we’ve set the reward at PLN 10,000 but the situation is changing all the time.”

When she went missing, Madga was wearing a beige combination suit and was covered in a pink blanket. Police have asked anybody who was near ul. Legionow 18 on January 24 and saw somebody with a baby to contact them immediately.

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