Woman steals baby from maternity hospital: she puts him in a bag to get him out without arousing suspicion and the police think that “she made up to her boyfriend that she was pregnant”

Because he wanted to support a lie, he was preyed upon. That’s the conclusion a police chief comes to when he speaks about the arrest of a woman accused of taking a newborn baby from a maternity hospital in Brazil.

Security cameras captured her as she “wandered” through the institute’s facilities at dawn. The most serious was taking the child in one of the bags he was carrying, Noticias Caracol reported.

He left without arousing suspicion. Police believe that “Cauane could have entered through one of the balconies,” G1 revealed. The woman was identified as Cauane Malaquias da Costa, who they said is 19 years old.

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What happened to the stolen baby?

Nívea Maria and Matheus Maranhão welcomed Ravi, their first child, on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, at the María Amélia Buarque de Hollanda Municipal Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro.

According to local media, “the new mother fed her child and fell asleep next to her mother-in-law.” Both were in a room on the third floor of the Maternity Hospital, where four other mothers were resting with their newborn babies.

Twenty minutes later, “the mother-in-law woke up and saw that her grandson was no longer in the crib.”

“My wife immediately tried to find out from the other housemates whether anyone had picked him up to calm him down, but no. My wife became desperate, went to the nursing ward and they discovered the disappearance,” said Davi Figueira, the child’s grandfather.

“The woman was seen on CCTV cameras wandering around the maternity hospital around 2am on November 1 with three suitcases, one of which contained the baby. After leaving the health center, he went to his house about ten kilometers away, in the Morro do Bore favela,” Red Uno published.

The reason that made her steal the baby

To leave the maternity hospital, Cauane told two lies: that she was pregnant and also that she was keeping company with a patient in room 307, which was empty, Noticias Caracol reported.

During an earlier tour of the health center, he saw the baby and later decided to go get him, police said.

The security forces received an anonymous phone call warning them who might have the baby, and so they approached her home. They found her with the child on her lap and she declared it was hers.

They “asked the woman why she was doing this” and her response was silence.

‘I think it would be to raise him like a son since she had a boyfriend and It was invented for that boyfriend who was pregnant“Mário Andrade, police chief, told G1, Red Uno published.

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday, November 1, the family received the news that Ravi was in perfect health. Grandfather Davi, grateful to God, “knelt in front of the maternity ward” as some health workers applauded. The image of the day was seeing the baby in the arms of Nívea, the mother.

(JO)