Newborn abducted from hospital (was found and OK)

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Remember my post about the preemie who was baptized in NICU without the parents' knowledge? This abduction occurred at....wait for it........the same hospital

pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=23254&page=1

Am I being unfair, or do you think there's a huge compliance/enforcement fail at this place? The hospital where I delivered was really vigilant about infant security.

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(CNN) -- A 3-day-old baby abducted from a Pittsburgh hospital has been reunited with his mother, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said.

Pittsburgh police recovered the baby hours after a female suspect in black scrubs and pink shoes was caught on surveillance Thursday afternoon at Magee-Womens Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The family was preparing to be discharged when the abduction happened, said Wendy Zellner, a hospital spokeswoman.

A few hours later, Breona Moore, 19, was arrested. She will be charged with one count of kidnapping, Pittsburgh police said in a statement.

Breona Moore, 19, was arrested in the abduction of a baby from a Pittsburgh hospital.

Police took Moore into custody after her relative tipped them off to a Facebook post where she claimed she had a baby Monday. The anonymous tip led police to a downtown building, where they arrested her and found the baby.

As she was transported from the squad car to the police headquarters, Moore yelled, "Guess what mom? It's all your fault!" CNN affiliate WPXI filmed her shouting. "I'm telling you, it wasn't just me!"

Moore's final comment to reporters before police removed her was, "It's a lot when you lose a child."

Physicians examined the infant and found him to be in good health, hospital officials said.

"We'd like to thank the police, the FBI and our staff for their great and rapid work to bring this incident to a successful conclusion," hospital President Leslie Davis said in a statement. "We will be reviewing this event to see what improvements could be made in our security procedures."

On discovering the baby's disappearance, hospital employees immediately notified police and implemented security procedures, according to Zellner.

Who would steal a baby, and why?

The suspect had bought hospital scrubs at a uniform store that morning and provided a fake name, police said.

Baby abductions by nonfamily members at hospitals are rare. Before Thursday, there had been 131 cases since 1983, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Of those, 126 infants were found.

[wrathofkuus]

Magee's maternity stuff has been a shitshow for at least thirty years now.

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Aug 24, 2012 16:01:50 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

Magee's maternity stuff has been a shitshow for at least thirty years now.

WOK, I keep forgetting you live in the area!

[wawa]

really? this is the hospital where my neice and nephew were born. i don't remember it being particularly lax when I visited - the usual baby beeper and such.

What in the world is going on there?

[wrathofkuus]

Yeah. No one who has ever had a baby there has anything good to say about it, from these news stories, to c-sections where the placenta isn't completely removed before stitching the mother back up again.

[dev22]

Based on the story, I am thinking her mother either forced her to have an abortion or to give a baby up for adoption, and she just had a psychotic break. The screaming that it is her mothers fault and that losing a child is hard makes me think there was some trauma there. Which makes me sad for this 19 year old kid as well - hope that she can get some help while she is in the slammer.

[pig's eye]

Aug 24, 2012 16:11:57 GMT -5 dev22 said:

Based on the story, I am thinking her mother either forced her to have an abortion or to give a baby up for adoption, and she just had a psychotic break. The screaming that it is her mothers fault and that losing a child is hard makes me think there was some trauma there. Which makes me sad for this 19 year old kid as well - hope that she can get some help while she is in the slammer.

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

And how exactly does someone dressed as a nurse just walk out of a hospital with a newborn? Isn't there security at the entrance/exit? There was at our hospital and I had to verify with the security officer that my arm tag matched my daughter's while we were being escorted out by a nurse.

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Aug 24, 2012 16:36:58 GMT -5 pig's eye said:

Aug 24, 2012 16:11:57 GMT -5 dev22 said:

Based on the story, I am thinking her mother either forced her to have an abortion or to give a baby up for adoption, and she just had a psychotic break. The screaming that it is her mothers fault and that losing a child is hard makes me think there was some trauma there. Which makes me sad for this 19 year old kid as well - hope that she can get some help while she is in the slammer.

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

And how exactly does someone dressed as a nurse just walk out of a hospital with a newborn? Isn't there security at the entrance/exit? There was at our hospital and I had to verify with the security officer that my arm tag matched my daughter's while we were being escorted out by a nurse.

Where I delivered, a hospital photo ID wasn't even enough. The employee's name on the badge has to be highlighted in pink, which designates that their jobs actually entail newborn care. The instructor who taught the childbirth class we took strongly emphasized that if you don't see pink, they are not to touch your baby and if they do, you call security.

[mcgee]

Aug 24, 2012 16:43:12 GMT -5 sunmoonstars said:

Aug 24, 2012 16:36:58 GMT -5 pig's eye said:

Yeah, I was thinking the same.

And how exactly does someone dressed as a nurse just walk out of a hospital with a newborn? Isn't there security at the entrance/exit? There was at our hospital and I had to verify with the security officer that my arm tag matched my daughter's while we were being escorted out by a nurse.

Where I delivered, a hospital photo ID wasn't even enough. The employee's name on the badge has to be highlighted in pink, which designates that their jobs actually entail newborn care. The instructor who taught the childbirth class we took strongly emphasized that if you don't see pink, they are not to touch your baby and if they do, you call security.

DH and I agreed that if anyone came to take DD while I was in the hospital, he would go with them. At one point she had to be taken over to the adjacent children's hospital to test for some kidney problems. We were waiting with the nurse for her ankle bracelet to be deactivated to so we could leave the maternity ward - DH bumped into the plastic bassinet and accidentally pushed it too close to the door, and alarms went off everywhere, doors were locked down, etc. And our baby was a good 3 feet from the door when that happened.

If I'd given birth at the hospital mention in the OP, I'd be worried that I'd been sent home with the wrong baby. Seems like that's a possibility if they're letting random people in and out of the maternity ward and the NICU.

[vanillacourage]

Our L&D unit also had the baby Lo-jack and pink highlighted nametags, which was fine. Except that when I came back shortly after having the baby for the BFing support group, it was being held in the L&D floor's conference room, which was behind the security doors. I came up the elevator with DS in his seat, with a blanket over his carrier. I told the front desk person I was there for the BFing support group, she buzzed me back through without even seeing if I actually had a baby in the seat, and then I walked myself into the (empty) conference room. The lead person was running late so I was just chilling on the L&D floor, unaccompanied, for like 10 minutes.

[fakejew]

The baby and mother had already been discharged. The security devices had been removed.

I can't figure out if this fruitcake is sociopathically smart or just super super lucky to have stolen a newborn who had already been discharged.

From what I read she faked a pregnancy to keep her boyrfriend from breaking up with her.