The mother left the car running while she took her other child into the school.
The carjacker jumped into the vehicle, and drove a block before realizing the nine-year-old was sitting in the back seat.
He pulled over, gave the key to the kid, grabbed a purse left in the car by the child's mother, and fled on foot.
The unharmed child walked back to the school.
East Orange police state drivers should not leave their cars running in the cold.
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