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Boy gets his hearing back following theft
A man has been charged over a snatch-and-grab robbery of a deaf and blind five-year-old boy on the Gold Coast.
George Storie, from northwest NSW, was holidaying with his family, swimming at the Mooloolaba Spit, when his mother's bag was snatched at about 4.30pm on January 27.
The bag contained Georgie's new cochlear implant and his prescription glasses.
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Police launched an investigation, and the public called in information to Crime Stoppers, and on the weekend George got his hearing back.
A person handed in the cochlear implant into the Redcliffe Police Station on Sunday.
An 18-year-old Deception Bay man has been charged with one count of stealing over the incident and will appear before the Redcliffe Magistrates Court on February 21.
A man has been charged over a snatch-and-grab robbery of a deaf and blind five-year-old boy on the Gold Coast.
George Storie, from northwest NSW, was holidaying with his family, swimming at the Mooloolaba Spit, when his mother's bag was snatched at about 4.30pm on January 27.
The bag contained Georgie's new cochlear implant and his prescription glasses.
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Police launched an investigation, and the public called in information to Crime Stoppers, and on the weekend George got his hearing back.
A person handed in the cochlear implant into the Redcliffe Police Station on Sunday.
An 18-year-old Deception Bay man has been charged with one count of stealing over the incident and will appear before the Redcliffe Magistrates Court on February 21.
I am glad it was a happy ending to the theft, in spite of the poor choice of wording.