{"id":648467,"date":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648467\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","slug":"boy-4-abducted-from-cradley-heath-park-and-found-in-woodland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648467\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 4, abducted from Cradley Heath park and found in woodland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A four-year-old boy was abducted in a park while his mother tended to a baby and was missing for several minutes before being found nearby, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are appealing for information about what happened near the fish pond in Haden Hill Park, Halesowen Road, in Cradley Heath, near Dudley, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police said the reported abduction happened as the child&#8217;s mother was tending to the baby at 15:00 BST and the four-year-old was later found in a woodland close by. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The person alleged to be involved was described as being in his late teens, black, short in height and with curled hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was clean shaven and wore black clothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe this is an isolated incident but we understand how concerning it is and understand the impact it will have in the area and to the local community,&#8221; a spokesperson for the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Extra officers remained in the area on Friday to offer reassurance to the local community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said they were reviewing CCTV footage from the area and appealed for witnesses to come forward or anyone with mobile phone footage taken in the park at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-year-old boy was abducted in a park while his mother tended to a baby and was missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}