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Cops Arrest Woman For Trying To Steal Baby From Hospital After Suffering Miscarriage

This is the moment a young woman who was caught stealing a baby from a hospital breaks down in tears and tells cops she couldn’t help herself after losing her own baby a few days previously.

Talita Meireles, 23, dressed up as a nurse so that she could go and look at the newborn babies in a hospital maternity ward in the Brazilian city of Curitiba on Monday, 12th July.

She told police that she couldn’t face telling her family and her husband that she had lost her baby and had no idea what came over her when she took the baby from its mother just to hold it for a moment and then left with it.

Security cameras recorded the moment when Talita Meireles tried to take a newborn baby from the maternity hospital in Curitiba, Brazil, in July 2021. (Newsflash)

In the video, the young woman tells the police officer through tears: “I lost my child. I just didn’t want to tell my family. I didn’t want to tell anyone.

“I really don’t know what happened to me. I was desperate.”

Asked where her husband was, she said he was travelling and then added: “I’m alone. I don’t have anyone with me. I don’t know what went through my head.”

Security cameras recorded the moment when Talita Meireles tried to take a newborn baby from the maternity hospital in Curitiba, Brazil, in July 2021. (Newsflash)

She said that she had lost her child a fortnight ago and added: “I went to look at the children. I started to look at them. I wanted to take one in my arms. And then everything happened. I didn’t want to do anything bad.”

She told the officers that she entered the maternity ward without being asked to sign in, as she reportedly arrived when staff were changing shifts.

She then spotted a nurse’s uniform in a changing room and put it on in order to see the babies.

Security cameras recorded the moment when Talita Meireles tried to take a newborn baby from the maternity hospital in Curitiba, Brazil, in July 2021. (Newsflash)

She found one child with its mother and said that she needed to take it for tests.

However, she was caught at the last minute because she had changed out of the nurse’s uniform, and staff noticed that she was not wearing a patient wristband and was carrying the newborn.

The staff took the baby from Talita and handed it back to its mother before calling the police, who arrived on the scene and questioned her.

Security cameras recorded the moment when Talita Meireles tried to take a newborn baby from the maternity hospital in Curitiba, Brazil, in July 2021. (Newsflash)

The hospital has since defended its security protocols, saying they were efficient in preventing the crime from taking place.

It was not reported if the suspect was taken into preventive custody.

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