CA passes law against loitering in maternity wards
Hospital Safety Connection, September 28, 2003
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A new law signed by California Governor Gray Davis on September 11 makes it a crime for people to loiter in a hospital maternity ward or birth center without a legitimate reason to be there, the Fresno Bee reports.
The law is the nation's first to target "baby stalkers" who frequent maternity wards and neonatal, according to officials at Community Medical Centers in Fresno, where nurses led the campaign to create the law.
Those convicted of unlawfully entering and remaining in a birthing area face penalties of a one-year county jail term or a $1,000 fine. So-called baby stalkers could also be forced into counseling as a condition of probation. The law goes into effect January 1, 2004.
Nationwide, 113 infants were taken from health care facilities between 1983 and 2002, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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