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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the kidnapper followed the discharge nurse into the room, waited until she removed the security anklet, then said she they needed to do one quick check and she would be right back with the baby....the kidnapper also did actually make it off hospital grounds and was the baby was missing for several hours. I was born at Magee Hospital and last year visited a friend who had just delivered there. I was never stopped and made it all the way to her room with no security. At the hospital where I delivered, the maternity ward had alarm doors on it and to enter you had to be buzzed in and be on a list of approved visitors from the mother.
I'm also in Pittsburgh, and this is an unaccurate report. She did indeed leave the hospital and made it about 2 city miles away. Please check the facts.
This is making me so glad my birthing center had such high security. You couldn't get in unless you identified yourself & the person you were seeing was alerted, all hospital ppl had a color coded id badge & you were told not to give baby to anyone without a certain color, matching wrist bands for momma baby & daddy, & the babies had alarms placed on their ankles so they couldn't be taken out the door without setting stuff off. Seemed insane at the time but now I know why.
My son had an alarm attached to him when he was a newborn. Even in a hospital environment you have to take precautions as a parent because there are a lot of nut jobs out there. I refused to hand him over to any one unless A) I knew them, B) they had a proper ID tag and C) were wearing the proper hospital attire. I doubled checked the names and ID tags of any hospital employee that came into my room from the pediatricians to the maintenance man who had to unclog the sink and every body in between. NOBODY was getting close to my kid unless I knew their name from their name tag and their greeting and how they were affiliated with the hospital. When we left, they removed the alarm on my son and double checked my arm band with his foot band just to make sure we had the right baby.
Um, she did make it out of the hospital. Only because she knew enough to wait till the alarm bracelets had been removed.