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The woman walked into the hotel dressed in a white coat pretending to be a nurse
CCTV footage shows a suspect accused of trying to steal five babies from hospitals in Spain while disguised as a nurse. A 21-year-old woman has been arrested over the incidents in Valencia and Cartagena
A woman has been arrested in Spain after allegedly trying to steal five babies from two hospitals while disguised as a nurse.
The 21-year-old was stopped by the
father of a newborn she allegedly attempted to take from a hospital
room in Valencia by claiming she needed to carry out a heel prick test
on him.
She was tracked 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 scares happened within an
eight-hour period on Sunday at Cartagena General Hospital and a second
public hospital in Valencia called La Fe.
The suspect, who has not been named,
was expected to go before an investigating judge later today after
being questioned by police.
The father, who raised the alarm at around 7.30pm on Sunday, 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.
The woman is accused of trying to snatch three newborns from Cartagena General Hospital (pictured)
She entered two more rooms before being caught.
But discovered the woman in one was yet
to give birth and was ordered out of the other by suspicious relatives
of the child she allegedly tried to take.
Hospital security guards held her as she left the toilets before police arrived.
Detectives discovered a bus ticket in
her pocket as they searched her and were subsequently able to link her
to an attempted double baby snatch at the hospital in Cartagena earlier
in the day.
Specialist officers are now trying to establish if she acted alone or with the help of accomplices.
Security at both hospitals has been increased following the scares.
Around 6,000 babies are born each year at La Fe Hospital.
The suspect also allegedly tried to snatch two babies from La Fe Hospital (pictured) 170 miles away
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.
'The incident occurred on Sunday
evening when a woman dressed in a white gown entered a hospital room in
Valencia saying she needed to perform tests on the child.
'She took the child from a relative's
arms, but its father became suspicious and started to ask her about the
supposed test, receiving incoherent answers in return.
'He snatched his child from her arms and the woman fled the room.
'He then alerted staff and security
guards intercepted the woman as she left a toilet and confiscated the
uniform she had been wearing which was from another hospital.'
The spokesman confirmed she had entered
two other rooms at the hospital in Valencia, adding: 'Police later
discovered the woman in custody had tried to take two other babies from
a hospital in Cartagena using the same excuse that she needed to do
tests on them.
'She immediately alerted the parents'
suspicion because the test she claimed needed to be performed had
already been carried out.'
The suspect reportedly told police after her arrest she had recently suffered two abortions.
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