One-year-old child back with family following abduction in Eden

SALISBURY, Md. –  A one-year-old child is back with their family in Eden following an abduction Saturday afternoon.

Fruitland and Maryland State Police (MSP) say a woman, whose identity is being withheld, took the child, placed them in her back seat, and drove away in a gray Volkswagen.

Fruitland Police were alerted to the kidnapping and initiated a stop in the area of College Avenue and Camden Avenue in Salisbury.  The woman was arrested, and the child was returned to their family without injury.

A criminal investigation has now been launched by the MSP Salisbury Barrack into the abduction. The charges the suspect is facing have not been released.

This is a developing story and will be updated.