Surveillance video of woman accused of abducting 2 children arrested in Seminole County

Surveillance video shows suspected child abduction at Edgewater gas station

A woman accused of abducting her two children while the father went into the store at a gas station. The children were later found safe and reunited with their father, according to police, and the mom now faces abduction charges. 

EDGEWATER, Fla. - A woman accused of abducting her two children she had been court-ordered to have no contact with has been arrested in Seminole County, according to Edgewater Police Department. 

Emily St. Clair took her children, 7-year-old Eislee Kraus and 5-year-old Abel Kraus, from their father’s vehicle at a gas station in the 600 block of West Indian River Boulevard on Sunday evening, police said. 

Surveillance footage showed a woman get out of an SUV at a Sunoco gas station and run into another vehicle. A few seconds later, a child is seen getting out of the vehicle and climbing into the front seat of the SUV. The woman then walked back to the SUV, holding another child. 

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Then, the SUV took off. 

According to investigators, St. Clair followed the children’s father to the gas station and took the children when the father went inside the store. 

The children were later found safe and reunited with their father, according to police. 

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St. Clair is the mother of the children, but she is prohibited from having contact with them under a Department of Children and Families court order, police said. She also has an active felony warrant for drug possession, according to police. 

St. Clair was taken into custody and booked into the Seminole County Jail.