A two-day-old baby was stolen this Saturday from a public hospital in the Buenos Aires town of Isidro Casanovain the La Matanza district, and after seven hours was located at the door of a church near where he left her a young man who was arrested. In the framework of the investigation, then two women were arrested more linked to the man who stole the creature.
The 33-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter were arrested this afternoon on charges of stealing the baby and this Sunday they will be investigated by the prosecutor in the case, according to judicial and police sources confirmed to telam.
Disappearance and maximum alert
The girl had disappeared at 6 this Saturday from a room in the maternity sector of the Paroissien Interzonal Hospital, located at 6000 Brigadier General Juan Manuel de Rosas Avenue, in the Buenos Aires district of La Matanza.
According to what Jorge, the baby’s uncle, explained to the A24 news channel, “the information they gave me is that my sister breastfed her and then they both fell asleep. When my sister woke up, the baby was gone.“.
“Luckily, she is safe and sound,” said the man, adding that his “sister (for Yésica, the girl’s aunt) just got out of the car and got back in with the baby. We reached to give him a hug. My niece is already with her mom,” he said.
Appeared in a church
After 1:00 p.m., the girl, who had 48 hours to live, appeared at the door of the San José de Isidro Casanova parishand minutes later she was taken to her mother, after being missing for seven hours.
After an anonymous phone call and a photo, police officers arrived at the church and found the creature together with a 21-year-old boy, who was apprehended. Later, in the jurisdiction of the Altos de Laferrere police station, two women were apprehended, identified as Georgina Ayelén Rodríguez, 33, and her daughter Milagros Ailén Rodríguez.
Both are accused of having stolen the baby and will be investigated by the prosecutor Gastón Bianchi, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of the Judicial Department of La Matanza.
How was the baby stolen?
According to the investigators, at 1:30 in the morning, one of the women asked to enter a room at the Paroissien hospital, but was denied access, and the other requested it at dawn.
this second woman had left the health center with a backpack and found the otherto then head towards National Route 3, according to what the researchers were able to reconstruct based on the records of the health center’s security cameras.
María Elena, grandmother of the wanted girl, told the press that they managed to find the baby because her daughter Yésica “had put the girl’s photo on the networks.” “After a while a man called her who told her that she knew where the baby was, gave her the address and my daughter and her boyfriend went to look for her, but they did not find her there, they left her abandoned in a church,” she said.
The woman explained that the girl “had changed her clothes, they put her in male clothes, they bought her a bottle and diapers, they gave her milk bought in a supermarket; she had a light blue blanket and her clothes were in a bag.”
In relation to the detainee, he explained that “apparently he is the husband of the woman (who had stolen the girl) and when she appeared at the house with the baby, he took her out and said ‘what did you do, what did you do'” and then the they would have taken the parish because the news was all over the media.
