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Woman pleads guilty to kidnapping baby

Healthcare Security Weekly, August 27, 2007

The 21-year-old woman accused of abducting a newborn from the maternity ward of a Lubbock, TX hospital pleaded guilty August 16 to aggravated kidnapping, reported the Associated Press (AP).

Rayshaun Parson, of Clovis, NM, sparked a manhunt and Amber Alerts in Texas and New Mexico last March after she slipped into the maternity ward at Covenant Lakeside Hospital wearing medical medical scrubs and abducted a days-old infant. She now faces up to life in prison and a fine of $250,000. A sentencing date has not been set, the AP reported.

The baby's mother was at the hearing but declined to comment other than to say the infant is doing well. Ms. Parson's public defender said her client never wanted to inflict on another mother the pain she went through after losing her own baby before it was born. "She wishes more than anything in the world that she'd never taken that baby," the lawyer told the AP.

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