A Queensland man is due to face court today after being charged with attempting to abduct an eight-year-old girl from her family's car in the Queensland town of Emerald.
CCTV footage shows a man trying to grab the girl from the back seat of the vehicle while it was parked outside a local hotel on Friday morning.
Police say the man quickly returned to his white Toyota Hilux ute after the girl screamed and a hotel worker walked past.
The girl appeared to have been left in the sedan when her mother and a sibling got out to enter the hotel, possibly for a toilet break.
Yesterday police arrested a 36-year-old Emerald man and charged him with one count of enter premises to commit an indictable offence.
The man is due to face Mackay Magistrates Court this morning via video-link.
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