So I'm hoping to god this whole "dress up in scrubs and pretend to be a nurse so you can steal a newborn from the hospital" thing isn't becoming some sort of crime trend, because so far this month? This has happened twice! To completely different babies in completely different hospitals. And that's just two times too many.
Especially considering the fact that this latest babysnatcher-in-disguise was just 19 years old! Who apparently spent the past few months trying to convince her family she was pregnant. Oh, lord. What is wrong with people?!
Why, why, why? According to police, Breona Moore, 19, dressed up in nurse's scrubs, went to the hospital and pretended to be the sister of a 3-day-old newborn's mom. Then, once she gained access to the room, she claimed to be a nurse and said "she needed to take the baby for a checkup ... The family eventually realized something was amiss and alerted hospital officials."
Well, I should hope so! Thankfully, as with the last faux-nurse newborn abduction attempt, Moore was apprehended before she made it off of hospital grounds. But wtf? Don't most hospitals have some kind of rule about employee ID badges or something?!
All I know is, if I was having a baby right now? I'd be fairly terrified to hand that kid off to anybody, scrubs or not. Can you prove you're a nurse?! Quick, take my blood!!
Would you be scared about a crime like this if you were having a baby right now?
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I live in Podunk Southeast Iowa, and MY hospital had an alarm on my 2 youngest. In fact, once a nurse was pushing my now 9 year old in his isolette back to the nursery, and had to move to the side closest to the door that led off the floor because they were pushing a laboring mother by on a gurney and the alarm went off and locked down the whole floor...
The hospitals my kiddos were born at also had an alarm system in the form of a little anklet. Although, I never let them out of my sight anyway.
It's a sad commentary on the times when newborns have to be "lo-jak'd" as soon as they come into this world....
Be forwarned. If you ever hear 'code pink' in a hospital that's a baby snatching. Happened to me while I was having my youngest. After he was born, he NEVER left my side. The nurses were understanding and did everything in the room. He was even circumsised there.