Police in Jeddah have mounted an extensive search for an infant girl that was kidnapped Friday by her family's Indonesian housemaid. The woman has reportedly issued ransom demands for the child's return. The father of three-year-old Rawan told police that he left her in the care of the maid near a children's play area at a shopping center in the Al-Faisaliya district and after only a few minutes returned to find that the two of them had disappeared. Investigators have been questioning anyone known to be in the housemaid's acquaintance and undercover officers are gathering information at possible sites providing shelter to the kidnapper. “We are conducting continuous rapid searches to identify the whereabouts of the child and her kidnapper,” said acting spokesman for Jeddah Police Nawwaf Al-Bouq. “We would ask anyone with any information whatsoever to come forward and help with our enquiries.” Police have released photographs of Rawan in the hope that she might be recognized by members of the public. In a similar incident in May 2009, a five-month-old girl was returned to her parents within 36 hours of being kidnapped by a housemaid in the Al-Naseem area of the city. Police located the woman and child at a residence used by illegal immigrants and runaway maids in the district of Al
