PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Detectives investigating after a 10-year-old boy vanished on a trip to shops have charged a man with kidnap and sexual assault, prosecutors say.
West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had authorised officers from West Midlands Police to charge Michael Jackson, 49, from Oldbury, with the kidnap and sexual assault of the child in Oldbury on Sunday.
Police launched an investigation after the youngster was reported missing by a worried family member at 9.15am when he failed to return home.
Police officers and members of the public searched the area for more than two hours before a neighbour spotted the boy inside a property at around 11.30am.
He was uninjured and returned to his family shortly afterwards.
Emma Garnett, senior crown prosecutor from West Midlands CPS, said: "Having carefully examined all of the available information which was submitted to me by the police, I have decided that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to charge Michael Jackson with one count each of kidnap, false imprisonment, threats to kill and sexual assault.
"I have also authorised the police to charge him with one further count of child abduction which is in connection with a separate incident involving an 11 year-old child."
He will appear before Warley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday morning.
West Midlands police said that a 48-year-old man arrested in connection with the investigation had been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
A 30-year-old man has been released without charge.