I was caught on cctv grabbing a child once
I won't post this up front as it's similar to yours.

The child I grabbed was also Japanese-- full, and spoke no English. Barely spoke at all as she was hardly older than a year herself. I noticed her as there was no other customers in the vicinity, and she was wandering... YIKES, I'd forgotten how fast toddlers can move! I grabbed her just as she was about to toddle down the "up" escalator. And once I'd grabbed her, I realized I'd better be sure to carry her in a way to keep my hands in s full view as possible, and walk where all the cctv bubbles could see me. l bundled her straightaway over to the nearest clerk's counter and asked her to page for this little girl's mum.

I thought I was done, but the clerk LEFT ME with the child, and went to find her supervisor. Don't stores teach their clerks what to do in these situations?! Obviously not. So I tried to entertain the child, whilst still keeping my hands in visible, obvious, innocent places while they paged in English. Which was probably useless as the mum was likely a native Japanese speaker.

It took ages, but eventually a nice Japanese lady came running over in full-panic mode, pushing an empty buggy and calling "Yugi! Yugi!" And chattering her thanks, scoldings to the child, apologising, in broken English and Japanese. What was nice was that Yugi was absolutely unperturbed by it all and chortled and leapt into her grateful mum's arms.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 12 Feb 2012, 19:43, Reply)