A man in his 40s have been arrested following the theft of a car in Dublin with a baby and a nine-year-old child inside.
It happened in Cabra on Sunday where a family left their car running briefly and it was taken.
The infant was left on the side of a road afterwards.
Conor Lally is Security Editor with the Irish Times - he describes what happened after the car was taken:
"About 1km from the family home, where he had taken the car, he put the young baby face down on the pavement.
"Three women close by saw what was happening
"They couldn't really understand what was going on
"When the got closer, they realised it was a child.
"They picked the baby up and took it into their care.
"They didn't know what was going on or where the baby had come from."
Before the incident took place, the car-thief was watching as a man and women briefly left their vehicle unattended to go back inside their home, leaving the engine running.
At the time, their two children were in the car and their 9 year-old, managed to jump from the car before the man sped off.
However the car-jacker didn't realise there was an infant strapped into the back seat.
Shortly afterwards the child was left on a footpath and the thief continued driving.
The car was recovered this morning and the investigation is ongoing.
