Less than 24 hours after birth, a baby was kidnapped from a hospital in Italy by a woman posing as a nurse. After a large-scale manhunt in the city of Cosenza (Calabria region), the child’s kidnapper was tracked down and the child was returned to his parents.
Both the mother and grandmother were in a room at the clinic with the baby when the woman took the newborn for what was supposed to be an examination. When the baby did not return, the parents raised the alarm. According to authorities, a major manhunt was immediately launched.
Kidnapper caught on highway
The police blocked all exits in the city. Authorities were then able to track down the woman through footage from the clinic’s surveillance cameras. On the outskirts of Cosenza, just before the highway entrance, a vehicle was stopped by the police. The woman, her husband and the kidnapped baby were on board. The couple was subsequently arrested. The parents who had waited in the hospital were able to hug their child again.
False pregnancy
As Italian media reported, the couple had long planned the crime. The woman had pretended to be pregnant for months and later announced that she had given birth to a child. Everything in the couple’s apartment was prepared for a baby welcome party.
Source: Krone
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