Baby Theft

According to the police, the six-month-old baby who can be heard crying in the video appeared uninjured.

A newborn was stolen from the ICU of state-run SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttak and the police has arrested a couple for trying to paint the theft as a baby swapping case, officials said today.

A couple living in the United States for decades under false names stolen from dead babies have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, in a case tinged with suspicion of espionage.

Three women were caught on camera stealing a stroller from a store. Their theft attempt, however, was foiled when one of them forgot her baby inside the New Jersey store.

Surveillance video taken at the San Antonio Aquarium captures a man leaning over into an exhibit and emerging with the shark in a net.

In a bizarre case, two men and a woman stole a shark from an aquarium by disguising it as a baby and putting it in a stroller.

Chennai: Hospitals are starting to tag newborns, mothers and medics as well as installing extra security cameras and educating staff to spot baby thieves amid fears that baby trafficking is becoming an organised crime nationwide. Officials said this was part of a drive starting at government-run hospitals in Tamil Nadu to ensure nurses, doctors, an...

Two men were charged on Monday with stealing rare pygmy marmosets from an Australian wildlife park as a baby was reunited with her mum and the hunt continued to find dad.

From next month, newborn babies in government hospitals across Tamil Nadu will get hi-tech protection. The baby, mother, and the attender will get radio frequency identification tags that would raise an alarm and alert the police if the baby is taken out of the ward.

As the rapper Vanilla Ice, Robert Van Winkle is most famous for the 1990 single Ice Ice Baby in which he used the bassline from the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie without at first giving them either credit or paying them royalties.

A woman was allegedly lynched in Uttar Pradesh by villagers who accused her of stealing babies. She died moments after being taken to hospital, badly wounded.

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years Thursday for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta's war on leftist dissidents three decades ago. Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, also was convicted and got 15 years. Bot...

A nurse was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the theft of a new born baby from the Gujarat Government-run Jamnabai Hospital in Vadodara last month, police said.The nurse, who works in the hospital, had stolen the baby boy on November 12. Police are searching for another woman involved in planning of the theft, Police Commissioner Rakesh Astha...

Radio frequency tags for babies and biometric screening of hospital visitors are two measures being considered by private and municipal hospitals in Mumbai to prevent baby thefts. The Association of Hospitals (AOH), which represents the city's private hospitals, is contemplating attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to babies to trac...

In a second incident of baby theft in a hospital in a month, a burqa-clad woman stole an infant boy from the Shivaji Nagar healthcare centre in Govandi on Monday.Two-month-old Shahid Ansari was stolen at 12.30 pm from the health centre, which is affiliated to Nair Hospital. His mother Munni Khatoon Ansari (27), had brought him in, to get his...

According to the police, the six-month-old baby who can be heard crying in the video appeared uninjured.

A newborn was stolen from the ICU of state-run SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttak and the police has arrested a couple for trying to paint the theft as a baby swapping case, officials said today.

A couple living in the United States for decades under false names stolen from dead babies have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, in a case tinged with suspicion of espionage.

Three women were caught on camera stealing a stroller from a store. Their theft attempt, however, was foiled when one of them forgot her baby inside the New Jersey store.

Surveillance video taken at the San Antonio Aquarium captures a man leaning over into an exhibit and emerging with the shark in a net.

In a bizarre case, two men and a woman stole a shark from an aquarium by disguising it as a baby and putting it in a stroller.

Chennai: Hospitals are starting to tag newborns, mothers and medics as well as installing extra security cameras and educating staff to spot baby thieves amid fears that baby trafficking is becoming an organised crime nationwide. Officials said this was part of a drive starting at government-run hospitals in Tamil Nadu to ensure nurses, doctors, an...

Two men were charged on Monday with stealing rare pygmy marmosets from an Australian wildlife park as a baby was reunited with her mum and the hunt continued to find dad.

From next month, newborn babies in government hospitals across Tamil Nadu will get hi-tech protection. The baby, mother, and the attender will get radio frequency identification tags that would raise an alarm and alert the police if the baby is taken out of the ward.

As the rapper Vanilla Ice, Robert Van Winkle is most famous for the 1990 single Ice Ice Baby in which he used the bassline from the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie without at first giving them either credit or paying them royalties.

A woman was allegedly lynched in Uttar Pradesh by villagers who accused her of stealing babies. She died moments after being taken to hospital, badly wounded.

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years Thursday for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta's war on leftist dissidents three decades ago. Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, also was convicted and got 15 years. Bot...

A nurse was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the theft of a new born baby from the Gujarat Government-run Jamnabai Hospital in Vadodara last month, police said.The nurse, who works in the hospital, had stolen the baby boy on November 12. Police are searching for another woman involved in planning of the theft, Police Commissioner Rakesh Astha...

Radio frequency tags for babies and biometric screening of hospital visitors are two measures being considered by private and municipal hospitals in Mumbai to prevent baby thefts. The Association of Hospitals (AOH), which represents the city's private hospitals, is contemplating attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to babies to trac...

In a second incident of baby theft in a hospital in a month, a burqa-clad woman stole an infant boy from the Shivaji Nagar healthcare centre in Govandi on Monday.Two-month-old Shahid Ansari was stolen at 12.30 pm from the health centre, which is affiliated to Nair Hospital. His mother Munni Khatoon Ansari (27), had brought him in, to get his...