Police Hunts Man Caught On Camera Running Off With Stolen Baby

A man who was caught on CCTV running off with a toddler is been disappeared into air;  police in Washington state are hunting for the man who snatched the 22-month-old boy in the tiny town of Sprague in the Pacific North West.

He was only stopped when the toddler's young brother and sister chased after him.

The suspect put the child down and ran off.

The three siblings had been playing in a park near their babysitter's house when the man, whose picture is reasonably clear on the CCTV images, took Owen Wright from his pushchair.

Michael Wright, the boy's father, is urging anyone with information to come forward to avoid anyone else getting a similar phone call to the one he received. "You get nervous. You're nervous and you can't think straight," he told KXLY news.

"I can't explain the feeling, the anxiety and everything that goes into finding out your children is (sic) missing or something has happened to them." 

Witness Dorothy Giddings said she heard a little girl screaming and sent her grandson and his friend to chase the man.

She said: "I told that little girl, I said, 'Honey, you did exactly what you needed to do, scream your head off.' That's what saved that baby. Her screaming and us running."

Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers said the youngster was unhurt.

He believes the abductor is not local and was passing through the town when he spotted the child.