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| Newborn found safe in NM |
| 2007-03-12 |
| I take this kind of stuff personal. I used to be a baby, y'know... LUBBOCK, Texas - A newborn kidnapped from a hospital here was found safe in a New Mexico home on Sunday, police said. Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was taken by police to Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, N.M., where she was in good condition, Clovis police Lt. James Schoeffel said Sunday. Transportation was being arranged to return the baby to Texas, said Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens. ''We're ecstatic to be able to locate the child still in good health and to be able to reunite her with her mother,'' Hudgens said Sunday morning. The infant was kidnapped early Saturday by a woman posing as a medical worker, who walked out of Covenant Lakeside Hospital with the 5-pound baby hidden in her purse, police said. A 21-year-old woman was in custody Sunday in Clovis, authorities said. Law enforcement officials received information from more than one source that the baby was in Clovis, about 100 miles northwest of Lubbock, said FBI spokeswoman Lori Bailey in Dallas. Bailey declined to elaborate |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I live about five blocks from where this happened, Tech Terrace for those who know Lubbock. Cops and volunteers turned the area upside down Saturday. The perp apparently knew a great deal about how the system works. It is a tremendous relief to this community that the little one is back with her mom and dad, and the perp is cooling her heels in the Clovis jail. She will undoubtedly end up as a guest of the State of Texas for several decades. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-12 04:42 |
| #1 Apparently the Lubbock hospital's fail-safe system failed (at least partly). Removal of the newborn's security bracelet was supposed to lock the hospital down, but didn't. Hospital video monitors did record important evidence at the time. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-12 01:05 |