Police are hunting for a burglar who rifled through a nursery as a two-month-old baby slept in their cot.
Security footage has revealed the moment the unidentified intruder used a fire escape to break into the apartment in Riverdale, New York.
In the CCTV video, captured by the child’s parents, the man can be seen entering through window before quickly rummaging through the room for valuables.
He is wearing a woolly hat, a blue hooded jacket and carrying a black backpack.
After apparently hearing the baby’s father in the living room, he sneaks out of the apartment empty-handed.
The baby was not injured, NBC New York reports.
According to the NYPD, the burglary took place on the evening of 8 March.
Officials said the same man broke into a 28-year-old woman’s apartment in the same building through a fire escape window minutes later. Once inside, he stole the woman’s jewellery, a bicycle and a backpack.
In November 2018, a burglar crawled into the bedroom of a two-year-old boy while the child’s father watched the break-in on his phone.
Oliver Wallace, an HR consultant, saw the burglary at his home in Surrey unfold live on a security app on his smartphone while he sat in a pub 13 miles away. His wife Sally and son Sam were on holiday during the raid.
