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A man was caught on surveillance footage stealing a boy’s iPad at a Compton grocery store on Saturday.

Maximilian Townsend, 7, set down his iPad to help his mother with the groceries at the Grocery Outlet, when a man took the tablet and later discarded the cover, store manager Tia McDaniel said.

“It was horrible that you would do something like that to a kid,” she said.

Maximilian got the iPad for his birthday and his mother said it is one of his prized possessions. He enjoys using it with his baby sister.

“To think that you can’t go to the grocery store without having someone just hurt you in this way, and hurt my child,” Ashley Townsend said.

The man was described as being in his 20s or 30s, is bald and has tattoos on his arms.

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