Police on Saturday continued their hunt for the person who kidnapped a 6-month-old girl Friday, checking video monitors at the supermarket where she was found unharmed Friday evening.
Yuka Kurabayashi disappeared around 11:15 Friday morning after her 23-year-old mother, Keiko, left her in a child seat in her minivan in the parking lot of the Higashi-Matsuyama Shopping Square Silpia to go shopping. Yuka was gone when she returned five minutes later.
Keiko told police she left her baby because she did not want to wake her and did not lock the van because she planned to return quickly.
Seven hours later, Yuka was found inside a car parked at a Seiyu supermarket outlet near the shopping center when its owner returned from shopping.