Mum describes knifepoint abduction with baby in the car

Detectives believe the woman was approached by the man who threatened her with a knife, forcing her into the driver’s seat of her silver Suzuki S Cross.

The alleged victim, Kieran, who did not want her last name used, said the man approached her from behind.

“He just came out of nowhere with a knife,” she said.

“I remember praying, ‘Take everything, just leave me with my daughter.’

“I just remember feeling really bad and all I remember is my daughter crying in the back seat.”

Kieran, a primary school teacher, said the man sat in the back seat with her daughter before forcing her to go to electrical shops on the South Gippsland Highway in Cranburn and Frankston-Dandenong Road in Dandenong.

He asked her to buy Apple MacBooks at several stores while he stayed in the car with her baby.

Kieran said her husband eventually caught up with them at the second shop, but she warned him not to intervene as the man “had a knife”.

She says her husband tried to get their daughter out of the back of the car, but the door was locked.

“I hated leaving my daughter in the car, but I made the boy promise not to take her,” Kieran said.

“Obviously it’s hard to believe him but I had to, I was so worried that in the panic he would run off with her inside.”

The mother said at one point she felt so sick she had to stop and throw up when they switched seats and he started driving.

Detectives previously confirmed the man drove away from the Dandenong store while Kieran was forced to stay in the back seat with her child.

He got out of the car and fled the scene after arriving at Robert Booth Reserve in Dandenong carrying four MacBooks shortly after 8pm.

Kieran said that when he left, her first thought was to get into her car and lock the doors.

She started driving home before stopping at a nearby kebab shop and asking to use their phone.

“I just wanted to talk to my husband and tell him that we’re okay, that my daughter is okay,” she said.

“Obviously it’s very hard to feel safe, walking to a mall is out, all kinds of parking… it’s really hard to feel safe.”

The woman and her child were not injured in the incident.

Police said the man is believed to be Asian in appearance and between 20 and 35 years old.

He wore a gray hoodie with a hood over his head, a green fluorescent vest over the top of the hood, and black/grey pants with black trainers.

He was last seen carrying a shopping bag containing two Apple MacBook Pro computers in their cases and two more Apple MacBook computers in a case under his left arm.