'It could have happened to anyone': Police commissioner urges compassion for mum whose baby was taken in stolen car

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'It could have happened to anyone': Police commissioner urges compassion for mum whose baby was taken in stolen car
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SA's top cop says he sympathises with a mum whose car was stolen with her baby inside while she ducked into a deli.

SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says he sympathises with the mother whose car was allegedly stolen with her infant inside, saying every police resource was thrown at the case on Monday morning.The baby was found safe inside the abandoned car about two hours laterThe four-month-old was in his car seat inside a Honda Jazz when it was allegedly stolen from outside of a deli in the Adelaide suburb of Klemzig on Monday.

Police found the abandoned car with the baby still inside about two hours later in the nearby suburb of Enfield."The first thing that springs to mind for me is people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," he told ABC Radio Adelaide."I would be very surprised if there's anyone out there that's raised children has not done something that, on reflection, might have led to an opportunity like this happening.

Commissioner Stevens said SA Police threw every possible resource at the situation and he was "very grateful" the baby was safely returned to his mum.

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