Woman Charged With Trying To Take Girl, 2, From Mother In Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A woman was charged Friday evening trying to take a 2-year-old girl from her mother in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Shao Qing Lee, 51, if Brooklyn, was arrested Friday and was charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said.

Around 9:50 a.m. Saturday, the mother and her two young children were heading home from the laundromat on 17th Avenue near 80th Street in Bensonhurst, when children began playing with puppies on display near a pet store.

The mother was momentarily distracted by the kids and the commotion when suddenly, Rayn Kaza, 2, was being led away by a stranger.

"The third time she took her hand, she walked a few steps and I told her, 'What are you doing?'" the mother told CBS2's Steve Langford this past weekend.

The panicked mother managed to grab her daughter back and snapped a photo of the suspect.

Afterward, the family fled to a relative's home in Connecticut. The girl's father, Omar Kaza, told CBS2's Lou Young this week that it was the suspect's demeanor that most frightened his wife.

"She was smiling; looks like she's crazy," he said.

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