The man accused of kidnapping three-year-old Kienan Hebert faced a judge in Cranbrook on Wednesday morning.
Randall Hopley made his first court appearance since he was apprehended near an Alberta bible camp on Tuesday.
It was a packed house in the courtroom in Cranbrook, B.C., about 70 kilometres from Sparwood.
Hopley was led in around 8:30 a.m., looking exhausted from his seven days on the run.
The 46-year-old faces charges of kidnapping, abduction of a child under 14, and break and enter. He has also been charged with two counts of breach of probation.
He has been ordered to undergo a 60 day psychiatric assessment which he consented to.
Hopley has requested that his next court appearance be via video conference, which was granted by the judge.
Police had been searching for Hopley for days before he was tracked down on Tuesday morning in the Crowsnest Pass area.
Hopley is accused of abducting Kienan Hebert, a young boy from Sparwood, B.C., who went missing after his parents tucked him into bed on September 6.
When Kienan's parents discovered their son was missing the next morning, they quickly called police. An Amber Alert was issued and within hours, Hopley was identified as a suspect in the abduction.
In the days that followed the abduction, Kienan's parents and police made public appeals for the boy's safe return.
Kienan was returned to his Sparwood home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday morning.
Randall Hopley has been taken to a jail in Kamloops and will appear in court again on November 9, 2011.
