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Mother says her 7-month-old baby was kidnapped outside a California mall after she was attacked

Story by Graig Graziosi and Kelly Rissman

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Screenshot 2025-08-16 at 3.03.07 PM.png© San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office

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Police are searching for a seven-month-old boy who was reportedly kidnapped in San Bernardino County, California.

The mother said her son was kidnapped after she was attacked.

Police brought scent-tracking dogs to try to locate the child, but the dogs were unable to lead authorities to the missing boy.

The mother told NBC LA Friday that she had just removed her son from his car seat at the plaza when she was hit from behind. She is from Cabazon, 90 miles east of Los Angeles, and was in Yucaipa for her older son’s youth sports game.

“I noticed a smell from my baby so I wanted to change him before going into the store,” she told the broadcaster. “I took him out of the car seat and I laid him on the chair. I had his diapers here and someone said, ‘Hola.’ I couldn’t turn and I don’t remember nothing. I got up from the floor and didn’t see my child. Someone took him from me.”

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In the US, around 2,300 children go missing daily; kidnapping is an alarming form of disappearance. 

Kidnapping rates vary across states, including those of strangers and familial kidnappings. Motives range widely including criminal and political.

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New research indicates Trump’s war on immigrants has little to do with fighting crime.

Opinion by David J. Bier

President Donald Trump is sending agents and the military storming into major U.S. cities like Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., while threatening other cities, like Chicago and New York. Trump administration officials claim a federal response is needed to fight crime, particularly in neighborhoods with larger immigrant populations. But new research suggests that Trump is looking for criminals in the wrong places, and it finds that immigrants bring less violence to their communities.

The Census Bureau surveys repeatedly showed that immigrants are dramatically underrepresented in jails and prisons compared with the U.S.-born. Surveys tracking immigrants over time found they were less likely to offend. Arrest and conviction data from the states supported this conclusion.

The Census Bureau’s National Crime Victimization Survey also showed immigrants were 44% less likely than U.S.-born Americans to be victims of violent crimes from 2017 to 2023.

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I voted for President Donald Trump believing he would deploy adequate resources to combat crimes such as kidnapping, satanic clubs, drug consumption and school violence. Trump’s poll declines suggest his program to combat crime and illegal immigration was ineffectively planned, designed and implemented.

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