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A mother says a man armed with a knife told her to "just stop crying" as he forced her to drive and buy laptops in Melbourne's south-east while her six-month-old daughter sat in the back seat.

In a detailed statement to the media, the mother spoke of the "abhorrent" encounter, where her attacker promised her he would not take her child and apologised for ruining her night before letting her free.

Police say the victim was getting out of her car at the Stud Park Shopping Centre last Friday night when she was confronted by a man who threatened her with a knife and forced her back into the driver's seat of her Suzuki S Cross.

Kieren said the man sat in the back seat of the car with her daughter and forced her to drive to several electrical stores nearby.

The man told her to drive to stores on the South Gippsland Highway in Cranbourne and Frankston-Dandenong Road in Dandenong, where he demanded she buy laptop computers.

"We're also appealing to anyone who may have driven cars and have dash cam footage of that area between about 5:20pm and about 6:30pm which may have captured this male in the lead up to the incident," Senior Constable Minehan said.

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