AMBER ALERT, Infant Kidnapped from Covenant Lakeside Hospital in Texas (UPDATE: Found Safe)
AMBER ALERT: Infant kidnapped from Covenant Lakeside Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. The kidnapping occurred on 3-10-2007 at approximately 1:20 AM according to the Lubbock Police Department. The infants name is Mychael Darthard-Dawodu.
Description Last Seen:March 10, 2007 – 1:20 AM Last Location:Lubbock, Lubbock County, TX Date of birth: March 10, 2007 Height: 1′ 7″ Hair Color: Black Weight: 10 lbs. Eye Color: Brown Gender: Female Race: Black
The victim is a 3-day-old African American female approximately 1’7″ long and 5.2 pounds. She is jaundiced and in need of medical attention.
(Sketch of suspect)
The suspect is described as an African American female in her early 20′s, approximately 5’3″ tall and 150 pounds. She has a round face and black hair that has been dyed auburn and was pulled back in a short ponytail with a scrunchy. She was last seen wearing a pink hospital scrub style shirt with purple and blue flowers, blue scrub style pants, a black jacket with fur around the hood and carrying a tan purse/bag. The suspect was last seen in a 2000-2006 red Dodge pick-up truck with black trim and tinted windows. (KCBD)
If anybody has information about this kidnapping please call the Juvenile Crimes Section of the Lubbock Police Department at 806-775-2788, or the Lubbock Police Department Front Desk at 806-775-2816 or Crime Line at 806-741-1000.
UPDATE I: Baby Kidnapped from Texas Hospital.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A woman posing as a medical worker kidnapped a three-day-old infant from a hospital early Saturday, police said.
Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was last seen at 1:20 a.m. at Covenant Lakeside Hospital when a woman wearing blue and flower-print hospital scrubs and a gray hooded jacket took her and drove off in a pickup truck, police said.
Hospital surveillance video showed the woman with the jacket hood pulled around her head and holding a purse as she walked through the lobby.
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The woman may have had a male accomplice, Hudgens said.
“At this point we don’t have any reason to believe that the family knew the suspect,” Hudgens said.
The suspect had gone into the mother’s room several times before the baby was taken, telling the mother the baby needed treatment, said Stafford.
“I think there was more than one attempt,” Stafford said. “I’m trying to verify if it was two or three times.”
UPDATE II: Kidnapped Texas Newborn Found in N.M.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) – A newborn kidnapped from a hospital here was found safe in a New Mexico hospital on Sunday, police said.
Four-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was in good condition in Clovis, N.M., and transportation was being arranged to return the baby to Texas, said Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens.
“We’re ecstatic to be able to locate the child still in good health and to be able to reunite her with her mother,” Hudgens said Sunday morning.