cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15712151

A woman in Adelaide, Australia, got a bizarre kidnapping scare when a shirtless man allegedly tried to snatch her baby out of the pram and breastfeed it. The incident occurred Friday morning on a bus headed down Bridge Road in Gulfview Heights suburb of the South Australian capital city.

Around 8:40 am, the mother raised the alarm with the 502 bus driver, who South Australia Police said alerted the bus depot over radio, informing that the 49-year-old suspect had attempted to grab the infant.

“A fare evader got on the bus and he went to grab the lady’s baby out of her pram,” he said.

“She’s come up to me and said: ‘You’ve got to get this guy off the bus, he’s not good. He’s tried to grab my baby out of the pram and breastfeed (my) baby.’”

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Meanwhile, the passenger whom he reported was still on the bus, for which he had not validated or bought a ticket, shirtless and wearing blue-coloured rubber gloves.

The suspect, instead of fleeing, decided to take a seat at the back of the bus, where the driver said he was “sitting quietly”.

The bus pulled over at the next stop, with police inbound, but the man managed to get away before the cops arrived.

However, police confirmed that an investigation was underway into the incident reported on Friday. In fact, they charged a Salisbury East man, 49, with aggravated assault and disorderly behaviour in connection with it.

In addition to the charges, he also faces a three-month ban from using all public transport.