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Woman kidnaps baby from Florida hospital

Healthcare Security Weekly, April 7, 2008

A woman accused of abducting a day-old baby boy from a Sanford, FL, hospital apparently followed a maintenance worker through a door to gain access to the secure maternity ward, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

An alarm signaled staff at Central Florida Regional Hospital on March 28 that someone had removed a baby from a room, and after a nurse verified a baby was missing, the hospital sounded a Code Pink.

Before abducting the baby boy, an arrest affidavit indicates the woman, who dressed as a nurse, attempted to take another baby. When she said she needed to take that infant for ear and eye exams, the mother questioned her because the baby had been examined earlier in the day, the newspaper said. A short time later, the woman went into the room of another new mother who thought the woman was a nurse and turned over her child for tests. The woman went into a vacant room and walked out carrying a blue bag with the baby inside.

A security officer responding to the Code Pink alert saw a woman carrying a package get into a car and tried to stop her. He got part of her license plate number and police tracked that vehicle and found the baby unharmed inside.

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