Authorities say woman shoplifter in abandons her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket.

A police spokesman in the town of Offenbach just south of Frankfurt says, "When the security man told the woman to enter his office so he could check her identification, the perpetrator took off, leaving behind the baby and the pram."

Officers managed to track down the 36-year-old Bulgarian woman because she left her identification in the stroller. She was reunited with her baby and released pending her trial.