Man, 37, arrested after ‘trying to pick up and run away with 3-year-old girl before her mum stopped him’

A MAN has been arrested over the alleged attempted abduction of a three-year-old girl.

The child was with an older relative when a man allegedly tried to pick her up outside a house and run away at around 5.15pm on Thursday.

However, he was stopped by the child’s mother, police said.

The girl was not injured during the “isolated incident” in Leicester Street, Wolverhampton.

The man was thought to have left in the direction of Harrow Street.

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