Texas Woman, 35, 'Tried To Snatch' 4-Year-Old Girl From Mom In Walmart

A horrifying incident happened at Walmart on Potranco Road in San Antonio where a Texas woman got arrested for attempted kidnapping.

The woman tried to walk off with a 4-year-olds, telling the mother: 'Just because she's yours, doesn't mean I can't take her.'

The disturbing ordeal happened on Monday when the 28-year-old mother, whose name was not released, was shopping in the store's aisles with her two daughters.

Jessica Vega, 35, walked up to the shopping cart, pushed the older daughter's hands off the handle and started walking away as the younger daughter still sat in the child seat, officials said, KTSA News reported.

As the mother turned around, she was left shocked upon seeing her child in another woman's arms. When the distraught mother confronted the stranger Vega, she was told that she won't give her child back.

Several witnesses began to intervene along with a store employee, who rushed to the mother's aid, according to a statement the San Antonio Police Department issued to DailyMail.com.

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Vega fled on foot as soon as police arrived, but was later apprehended. 

Police confirmed that the little child was unharmed, but the mother was clearly shaken and soon left the store with her kids.

There was enough evidence to have a warrant placed on Vega for attempted kidnapping.

Officers from the San Antonio Police Department took Vega into custody hours later, after an unknown caller called the cops informing them of her location.

She was taken into custody and charged with attempted kidnapping. She is currently being held at the Bexar County jail. 

An incident similar to this happened last month inside a SuperSpar supermarket in the city of Alberton near Johannesburg, South Africa. 

In the disturbing incident, a  male employee reportedly took an 8-month-old baby from the mother's shopping cart while her back was briefly turned.

The mother, Daniella Wolff had placed her daughter in the child seat of her shopping cart as she selected items from the chilled meat section.

But as she turned her back to open the glass door and bent down to pick up the meat, the stranger calmly walked over and grabbed the baby. 

The disturbing incident was captured on a surveillance camera. 

Wolff is seen on the video turning around to put the food in the cart but is horrified to find her eight-month-old daughter missing.

As Wolff shouts out in horror, she quickly turns around and sees her daughter being carried away by the store employee who was trying to walk out of sight behind a grocery aisle.

Wolff ran up to the employee and grabbed her baby from him while shouting: 'Where were you taking her? What were you going to do with her?'

The distraught mom posted the footage from the security office on her social media to share with the world the disturbing account of events.

She said: 'I have her in my arms and when I get to the meat section I place her in the trolley to free my hands and when I find what I'm look for I bend down.

'Within an instant, a stranger is seen in the video taking my daughter. I look up and she's gone.I immediately look for her and find her in the arms of this man.

'I'm able to grab her from him and say what he is doing with my daughter? Why does he have her? He is smiling and laughing and I say it isn't a joke and it's not amusing.

'He tells me he walked past the trolley and my daughter's arms were up so he picked her up. I am frozen and confused. Why is he laughing? I tell him it's not funny.

'You don't touch a child, you don't take a child. I am unsure what to do next and the man again approaches me to 'demonstrate' what my daughter was doing.

'He said she wanted to go with him.'

Wolff called her husband Bradley who rushed to the SuperSpar and after reviewing the CCTV footage insisted on reporting a case of attempted baby snatching.

The South African Police Service were called and after seeing the video arrested the member of staff.