Scary moment ‘mom tries to abduct neighbor’s baby at 2am after leaving her own child home alone’

A FLORIDA mom is facing kidnapping and child abuse charges after she allegedly left a child alone in her home at 2am, entered a neighbor's home and tried to take their baby.

Hannah Braun, 28, was caught on video ringing the doorbell of a neighbor in Pinellas County – who she reportedly did not know – a little after 2am on Tuesday.

She then entered the home and tried to take a nine-month-old child from his 12-year-old sister's arms, local NBC affiliate WFLA reported.

The child's mother Amber, who told the station she didn't want to give her last name, was reportedly able to get the child away from Braun and contact authorities.

Amber told the station that Braun said she was there to "protect" the baby.

"She's standing in my living room, talking about … 'I'm just here to get the baby. I'm trying to protect the baby,'" she said.

"I'm like, protect the baby? Why are you in my house?"

Another neighbor, Thelma Reynolds, told the station that Braun tried to take her one-year-old grandson on the same night.

"She wanted the baby," Reynolds said. "She said she was taking care of babies here."

A St Petersburg police spokesperson reportedly said that while Braun lived nearby, she did not personally know the families whose homes she targeted.

She is reportedly facing charges for attempted kidnapping, burglary with assault or battery, child abuse and two counts of neglect of a child without great bodily hard.

She is being held on a $145,000 bond.

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