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Latest Psycho to Kidnap Newborn From Hospital in Fake Scrubs Is Just 19-Years-Old (VIDEO)

by Jacqueline Burt on August 24, 2012 at 11:34 PM

stolen babySo 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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  • sofia...
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    sofia0587

    August 25, 2012 at 2:04 AM
    The hospital I gave birth at had an alarm attached to their umbilical cord stump and was only allowed to be removed in front of the mom when the baby was discharged. And if the baby was taken out of the labor and delivery area it would sound off in the whole hospital.
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    Emily Ann Marguerite Richardson

    August 25, 2012 at 5:36 AM
    She was able to leave the hospital grounds with the baby in a bag. I live in Pittsburgh where this happened. She was found at home
  • Em
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    Em

    August 25, 2012 at 6:34 AM
    My hospital had baby lo-jack...why don't they all??
  • Katsa...
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    Katsandkids

    August 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM
    My hospital also has a alarm system attached to baby's ankle if the baby is taken out of the attached birth center all the exterior doors of the hospital lock and alarms go off until the baby is returned and the system is de activated it would be very hard to make it very far with a newborn
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    Tonya Putnam

    August 25, 2012 at 8:57 AM

    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...

     


  • jagam...
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    jagamama0710

    August 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM

    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. 


  • notpe...
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    notperfctmom222

    August 25, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    It's a sad commentary on the times when newborns have to be "lo-jak'd" as soon as they come into this world.... 


  • Heath...
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    HeatherMazzone

    August 25, 2012 at 9:31 AM
    My baby had the little ankle bracelet alarm. We called it her house arrest anklet. Lol
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    Jesicalyn Mary Potter

    August 25, 2012 at 9:34 AM

    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.


  • Cynthia
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    Cynthia

    August 25, 2012 at 9:37 AM
    The hospital where I had my 3 children does not have alarm systems or baby low jacks, but ALL babies room in with the mom, there are no nurseries, and any tests or anything needing to be done to baby are done in the mother's room, so baby is never out of your sight. The father or the person of your request is given a wrist band matching that of the mother and baby and is the only person allowed on the floor besides siblings of the baby and grandparents to the baby. There is security at the door of the ward and you better have a wrist band and match or you don't get in.
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