Who is Karlee Gibbs? Woman recalls 'horrific' moment her car was stolen with her baby inside
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A woman described a 'horrific' incident when her car was allegedly stolen with her toddler still inside the vehicle. Karlee Gibbs, 23, was loading stuff into the baggage compartment of her gray Nissan Patrol in Yeppoon, central Queensland around 12.10 pm on Wednesday, April 19. After that, a female stranger allegedly took the wheel and drove off with the baby in the backseat.
The entire incident was captured on CCTV. Two people were later charged following the alleged theft of Gibbs' car while her four-month-old child was in the back seat. Police rounded up the gray Nissan Patrol and arrested a man and a woman at 4.00 pm.
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Who did the police charge?
Officers later charged a 24-year-old Cobraball woman with dangerous driving and child abduction on Thursday, April 20. A 36-year-old Mount Morgan man also faces the charge of unlawful use of a motor vehicle. They claim the woman, who was driving the automobile, returned to the scene after realizing the child was inside and demanded the mother remove the youngster from the vehicle. The 24-year-old female and the 36-year-old male have both been denied bail and will both appear in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Who is Karlee Gibbs?
Karlee Gibbs remembered the frightening incident when her car was supposedly stolen with her infant inside. "I screamed, 'My baby, my baby's in that car'" she told 7News. "It was just horrific. My heart sank knowing not knowing if I was gonna get my baby back. It's so hard to believe that it'd happen to you. Like, you always see it in, like, movies, but you don't ever think that it's going to happen to you. So I was just, my main focus was trying to get my baby back."
The mother allegedly crashed into two people
The mother allegedly sped off in the Nissan Patrol after the child was safely retrieved. But she allegedly crashed into two people before she could leave the parking lot. Paramedics from Queensland Ambulance arrived on the scene to offer assistance in the parking lot of the mall on Park Street. After receiving treatment for leg injuries, a 16-year-old boy and a 39-year-old woman were transferred to Yeppoon Hospital. The infant sustained no physical harm.
'Karlee and bubs are doing fine at home'
Her partner, Harleigh Baker, took to Facebook to inform the welfare of the child and said, "Car has been found and everything is all good. Karlee and bubs are doing fine at home."
