3/31/2014 Infant and Pediatric Abductions: Prevent the Unimaginable Tragedy Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 Speaker Sue Dill Calloway RN, Esq. CPHRM AD, BA, BSN, MSN, JD President of Patient Safety and Education  Board Member Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation www.empsf.org  614 791-1468  [email protected] 222 1 3/31/2014 Learning Objectives 1. Discuss the important components of a good infant and pediatric abduction program including policies and procedures, training of staff and parents, controlling access, and development of a critical incident response plan. 2. Describe what information should be communicated to the mother to minimize the risk of abduction. 3 Who Would Steal a Baby? CNN Health 4 2 3/31/2014 How Safe Is Your Baby? 5 FBI Report Violent Trends in Infant Abductions FBI issues report Sept 7, 2012 on Violent Trends Emerges in Infant Abductions Kidnappers getting more creative and more violent Trends of women abductors using more violence Using social media to target their victims like Facebook  32 YO mother develops friendship with younger new mother who lied about having baby and claimed her child was in hospital and invited to stay overnight and stole baby Woman usually 17-33 and unable to have a child 6 3 3/31/2014 FBI Infant Abductions Violent Trend Emerges www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/september/infant-abductions-a- violent-trend-emerges 7 August 24, 2012 Infant Abducted Pittsburg Hospital 8 4 3/31/2014 August 24, 2012 Infant Abducted Pittsburg Hospital 3 day year old infant, Bryce Coleman, abducted from a Pittsburg Hospital Magee-Womens Hospital Recovered hours later when suspect caught on surveillance cameras Family tipped off police after she posted on Facebook that she had a baby on Monday 19 YO Breona Moore arrested She had bought scrubs earlier that day at a uniform store She had cut off the baby’s security bracelet 9 August 2012 Hospital Attempted Kidnapping 10 5 3/31/2014 Attempted Infant Abduction California 2012  A 48 year old women walks into the hospital in Garden Grove, California in scrubs with a visitor’s pass  She went to the maternity unit where she was questioned by a nurse so she left  She went to 5th floor where there are babies and moms and walked into a room  She suggested to mom she take a shower and that the physician would be in to visit  She then puts baby in large tote bag  Alarm goes off, doors lock and nurse stopped her and recovered the baby girl and gave her back to her mom  Had visited the other hospital the week before 11 Ca Hospital Fined in 2011 After Abduction 12 6 3/31/2014 January 2012 Attempted Abduction Naquelle Ballard, 19 years old, walked into Southern Regional Women’s Center in Georgia Dressed in scrubs, she tried to abduct a newborn baby girl after putting the baby in her pocketbook The alarm went off and two employees confronted her She drove off but without the baby She was later arrested by the police Hospital has just spent 180,000. dollars to upgrade their security device 13 January 2012 Georgia Hospital 14 7 3/31/2014 April 17, 2012 Abduction in Parking Lot 15 Birmingham Hospital July 2011 16 8 3/31/2014 Alabama Infant Abduction Newborn baby was snatched in June 27, 2011 from a Birmingham maternity unit in an elaborate abduction plan A tag on the baby boy’s leg sounded off an alarm A series of doors slammed shut and locked A security guard ran to stop a group of men who were bundling the baby in the back of a car The guard was struck over the head with a metal bar but he remembered the license plate number 17 Alabama Infant Abduction Child is recovered within 30 minutes although some insiders reported it was two hours The abductors were relatives who were afraid that social services would be taking the child away Heartland Hospital alerted the police immediately that the child was taken by a family member Police contacted the family and returned the infant to the hospital Discussed their baby tagging technology known as XTAG 18 9 3/31/2014 March 14, 2011 Stolen As a Baby in 1987 19 Baby Stolen in 1987 Reunited with Mother A baby stolen from a New York hospital (Harlem Hospital) in 1987 is reunited in 2011 with her mother and father Carlina White (Nejdra Nance), now 23, was living in Atlanta after growing up in Bridgeport, Connecticut She found a photo of a baby on a website for missing children that looked like her DNA testing proved the child to be her so solved her own infant abduction case Stolen by Amy Pettway who dressed in a white nurses uniform 20 10