21-yr-old woman disguised as a nurse to steal 5 newborn babies from hospital

zainab quadri

March 16, 2016 3:37 PM

A 21-year-old woman disguised as a nurse has been arrested after she was seen trying to steal five babies from two different hospitals in less than eight hours.

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The young woman was discovered by the father of a new-born she attempted to take from a hospital room in Valencia, Spain, by claiming she needed to do a heel prick test on him.

The father who raised the alarm around 7.30pm on Sunday, prompting the woman’s arrest, works as a doctor.

He is said to have snatched his hours-old child out of her arms and alerted hospital staff after becoming suspicions about the answers she gave to his questions on the tests she said needed to be performed.

She fled the room but was tracked down to a toilet where she had hid to take off her fake nurse’s uniform - after two other failed attempts to steal children from the hospital.

Police discovered she had tried to take two other newborns from a medical centre in Cartagena 170 miles south earlier in the day.

The suspect, who was expected to go before an investigating judge later today after a police interrogation, has not been named.

A police spokesman confirmed: "National Police officers have arrested a 21-year-old Spaniard suspected of the attempted unlawful detention of a child after she tried to take the new-born away using the excuse of a medical test."

Security at both hospitals has been increased following the scare.

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