A Rotorua man has admitted he abandoned a 2-year-old who was inside a car he stole.
George Raymond Harris, 31, pleaded guilty via audio visual link in the Rotorua District Court today to abandoning a child under 6 and unlawfully taking the car the toddler was in on April 24.
Judge Jocelyn Munroe suppressed the name of the abandoned child and that of his mother, the car's owner.
Judge Munroe remanded Harris in custody until May 29 for sentencing.
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He is also to be sentenced that day on shoplifting and theft charges.