We've all had this thought after delivering a baby. In that
post-C-section haze, as we hand our wee one off to a nurse so he can
get wei
ghed, we fleetingly wonder: Could someone kidnap my child during these few minutes he is out of my sight? And then we think, nah.
But apparently that's exactly what happened yesterday in Sanford, Fla.
The good news is that the infant was found fairly quickly and has since
been reunited with the parents. Weirdly, this occurred just two days
after a 10-year-old in Kansas City met the FBI agents who rescued her when she was abducted 10 years ago from a Kansas hospital.
In
the Florida case, 39-year-old Jennifer Latham reportedly changed into
hospital scrubs, posed as an employee and placed the child in a large
blue tote bag, then slipped by hospital security and left the grounds.
Police tracked her down about 90 minutes later and found the newborn
unharmed. Officials say the woman was not related to the child or the
parents, and that this appears to have been a random abduction attempt.
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