Woman posing as nurse who 'stole baby from hospital' caught just 165ft from escaping across border

Natalia Edith Gonzalez is accused of dressing successful a nurse's azygous and look disguise successful a infirmary successful Asuncion, Paraguay, earlier stealing a newborn babe girl. She was arrested conscionable metres from the Argentinian border

A pistillate has been arrested implicit the alleged theft of a newborn baby miss from a infirmary successful which she's accused of disguising herself arsenic a nurse.

Police successful Paraguay apprehended Natalia Edith Gonzalez conscionable 165ft from the Argentina borderline aft the audacious effort connected Thursday. Harrowing CCTV shows a pistillate dressed successful a nurse's azygous and a disguise cradling the newborn successful a infirmary corridor portion seemingly waiting for a passing diligent to instrumentality to her room.

But erstwhile the seashore is clear, the pistillate darts retired of the ward inactive carrying the one-day-old infant. The footage was captured astatine Barrio Obrero Public Hospital successful Paraguay's capital, Asuncion.

The baby's great-grandmother aboriginal claimed she had shared a cupful of beverage with the fishy minutes earlier the alleged kidnapping. The grandma of the newborn's parent said the pistillate had told her she'd been successful hospital visiting an uncle astatine the time.

The gran said: "I aboriginal asked my girl wherever the babe was and she told maine that the caregiver had taken her to the paediatric ward. I told her that she wasn't a nurse. We ran aft the woman due to the fact that we saw her with the babe successful her arms."

After the alarm was raised, officials successful Paraguay activated an alert to different authorities, with a peculiar absorption connected the country's borders with Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. Police judge the fishy took a taxi earlier catching a autobus from the hospital, and was aboriginal arrested adjacent Clorinda, Argentina.

Police spokesperson Juan Gonzalez said: "We started to screen captious points successful the city, particularly the borders and footbridges, carrying retired checks." He said that the fishy took a autobus to the country of Mercado 4 earlier buying apparel for herself and the babe girl, past took a taxi to Loma Pyt .

She past asked the taxi operator which autobus to instrumentality to transverse the border. Gonzalez, who is from the Argentinian metropolis of Formosa, reportedly had the babe successful her arms astatine the clip of her arrest, arsenic reported by NeedToKnow. The constabulary said: "We proceeded to apprehension the woman, who resisted astatine each times." The babe was thankfully returned to her mother, 19, and is reportedly successful bully health.

Prosecutor Laura Finestra, successful complaint of the investigation, said the fishy lied to her spouse and family, claiming she was pregnant. The lawyer stated: "She told them she was successful a infirmary successful Formosa to springiness birth, but successful world she crossed into Paraguay connected 14 oregon 15 December. She past chose a parent who was unsocial and stole her child. She visited 2 others hospitals earlier carrying retired the kidnapping. Gonzalez's spouse was shocked erstwhile helium recovered retired the truth."

Ms Finestra said they person grounds connected the suspect's seized telephone that confirms the bid of events. There is presently nary grounds linking the transgression to a quality trafficking network. Upon her lawyer's advice, it's understood Gonzalez has truthful acold declined to testify. Ms Finestra said: "She insisted connected giving contradictory and implausible versions. She adjacent implicated different people, but everything was false." The probe into the alleged abduction is ongoing.