Two teenage girls will appear in a British court charged with kidnap and other offences after a three-year-old girl was taken from a shop in the Newcastle city centre.
The girls, aged 13 and 14, are accused of abducting the toddler from a Primark store on Wednesday evening.
The child was eventually found nearly 5km away north of the city by a police officer.
Northumbria Police said they have also charged the girls, who have not been named, with two counts of shoplifting.
The pair are to appear at South East Northumberland Magistrates Court on Friday.
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Police were alerted to the little girl's disappearance around 5pm on Wednesday, triggering a city-wide search.
The teenagers had allegedly left the store with the toddler, leaving her mother "incredibly" distressed.
Officers trawled through CCTV from Newcastle City Council, local shops, Newcastle University, bus companies, the Metro and their own cameras in search of the child.
After searching for more than an hour the girl was found by a police community support officer and reunited with her mother.
The teenagers were arrested in Gosforth Central Park.
