The 32-year-old was arrested in March after a father told police a man lunged at him and tried to snatch his 3-year-old daughter in the Porirua suburb of Whitby.
A man accused of trying to snatch a 3-year-old girl off the street in Whitby has been declared not guilty by way of insanity.
The man, who has name suppression, appeared in the Porirua District Court this afternoon on two counts of assault and one count of kidnapping.
The 32-year-old
was arrested in March after a father told police a man lunged at him and tried to snatch his 3-year-old daughter as the pair were walking on Exploration Way, in the Porirua suburb of Whitby.
The man was staying in a mental health facility on the street, run by Pathways.
In court today Judge James Johnston said he had read reports from two doctors and was satisfied the man was insane at the time of the offending.
