Airport Alert As Baby Stolen
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday July 30, 1992
Airports around Australia were on a security alert and a major police search was under way early today for a three-month-old baby boy abducted from a car outside his mother's house at Bondi last night.
A police spokesman said the baby's 38-year-old mother was knocked to the ground by two hooded bandits as she was taking a stroller from the boot of her car at her Penkivil Street home about 7.30 pm.
"One man struck the woman in the face and held her on the ground while the other man took the baby who was strapped in a car capsule in the back seat," a police spokesman said.
The two men then ran down the street carrying the baby and escaped in a hired white Holden Commodore, which was found by police dogs abandoned in Ocean Street at nearby North Bondi about 30 minutes later.
Police said the abductors were wearing white overalls or tracksuits with hoods.
The distraught mother, who asked that her name not be released, said early today that she believed her son, David, pictured right, would be taken out of the country.
She said she did not recognise the baby's abductors. "I just want him back," she said. "He's only 12 weeks old and still being breast-fed."
Her brother-in-law said: "We are very worried."
A spokesman from the Yeshiva Centre, an Orthodox Jewish community centre in Bondi, said the mother believed the baby's father - who holds both Israeli and United States citizenship - might have been involved in the abduction. He said she was a single woman, an Australian citizen who had given birth in Sydney.
"We believe the child's father arrived in Australia from overseas very recently," the centre's spokesman said.
Police said they did not believe the baby would be harmed.
© 1992 Sydney Morning Herald