That said it was my actual job to do this- but I could have been anyone with a pair of bolt cutters!
I was amused by my smart-ass answer and their reaction, but later, when everybody had come down, thought it was a good question. How do you prove you're the parent? Who's business is it to ask anyway? Do you call the police to verify every time s kid's upset? Or is kidnapping an insignificant statistic that we just live with it?
She fled to avoid further abuse for her and the child. The judge didn't see it that way. Saw it as kidnapping.
Kidnapping her own child...
I would not be surprised if there are fake cops now in the fake family group. But I hope for the best for China.
If you have a pair of bolt cutters and you look like you're aimlessly wandering, people will notice.
If instead, you walk in and go straight into any random office, you're fine.
If you know where the building manager's office is, go straight for that and make it look like you talked to them, people won't question anything you do afterwards. (Source: watched someone do this during a pentest)
At my university there were some actual thefts like this. Someone stole a beamer from a high ceiling in the middle of the day. And another time someone stole a heavy (=unliftable) new server.
In Dutch we use a lot of English words: Computer, keyboard, ... . So when I hear an English sounding 'beamer', I think it's English :).
We basically use 'projector' for anything from slide to video projector. But it seems the digital age introduce a new word 'beamer' in our language (and German), that didn't happen in English.
There were some other precautions they told us about to prevent someone coming in and snatching a newborn but it's been too many years to remember them.