A number of offences have been laid against a 19-year-old St. Louis man in Tuesday's kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl from Prince Albert.

Jared Charles will make his first court appearance in Prince Albert on Thursday, facing charges that include abduction, kidnapping, abandoning a child, criminal negligence, forcible confinement, sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.

An amber alert was issued Tuesday night, with the girl being returned home safely just over an hour later.

Charles was arrested near midnight in Prince Albert that night.