A young woman has been arrested for stealing a new born baby from a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
According to reports 19 year old Cuane Malaquias allegedly stuffed the one-day-old baby, Ravi Cunha into a duffle bag and smuggled him out of the hospital.
She then ran back to her home in Favela of Morro do Borel – five miles away.
Mother of the baby NÃvea Rabelo, 27, who had just been delivered of the baby, was fast asleep when the incident happened. At around 2am she noticed her son had vanished from the hospital
Speaking to newmen Cunha’s grandad, Davi, revealed that his daughter-in-law had breastfed the child and his wife had changed his nappy before they took a nap.
“20 minutes later, when (his wife) woke up to look at Ravi, he was no longer in the basket. Immediately, she tried to find out from the other roommates if someone had picked him up to calm him down, but no.
“My wife went into despair, went to the nursing station, and they detected the disappearance”.
Police received an anonymous tip from a neighbor and arrested Malaquias at her home Wednesday, 1 Nov, at around 8:15am.
Police took the baby back to the hospital, where he was reunited with his parents.
Local news claimed Malaquias, a mother to a five-year-old girl, had claimed to have been pregnant at the time. Malaquias told police that the newborn boy belonged to her.
