[UPDATED with Charges Clarified:] Grisel Maria Ramirez Held in Newborn-napping Try

See updates Nos. 4 and 5 at the end of this post on the charges and prison time Grisel Maria Ramirez faces, as well as allegations she shopped for a baby in "multiple hospital rooms."

Also s
ee updates: No. 3 on 9-1-1 audio and another hospital possibly targeted; No. 2 with photo evidence and the suspect's mugshot; and No. 1 with more details on the case.

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ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 6, 2:52 P.M.: A woman posing as a nurse walked into the Garden Grove Medical Center room of a new mother and her infant this morning and caused a distraction that allowed the stranger to place the baby in a tote bag and leave, according to police.

Fortunately, the would-be baby-napper was apprehended before she left the hospital, reports  Lt. Jeff Nightengale, the Garden Grove Police spokesman.

This happened just after 10 a.m., and hospital staff were alerted immediately about the infant being stolen, stated Nightengale, adding that the baby was recovered and immediately reunited with the mother.

No identities have been released, not even that of the suspected napper, who was only described as a female Hispanic adult. Facing kidnapping charges, she is being uncooperative with police, according to Nightengale.

UPDATE NO. 1, AUG. 6, 4:12 P.M.: Nightengale just concluded a press conference where he gave more details about this morning's incident.

He said the suspect is 48, a resident of Garden Grove about 20 years and that she likely entered the country illegally. She is not related to the mother nor the female baby, who was not injured, and Nightengale did not know if the suspect is a mother herself. She has no prior arrests.

Nightengale said surveillance video showed the would-be napper entering the hospital wearing scrubs that made it appear she was a hospital employee. She told the mother a doctor wanted her to take a shower, and while she was in the restroom the phony nurse placed the baby in the tote bag and walked out, according to the police spokesman.

Real hospital staff members were alerted to an emergency when the baby's electronic wrist bracelet triggered an alarm, according to Nightengale.

UPDATE NO. 2, AUG. 6, 7:15 P.M.: The Garden Grove Police Department identified the suspect as Grisel Maria Ramirez, 48, of Garden Grove.

The agency also released this booking photo:

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All photos courtesy of Garden Grove Police Department
Grisel Ramirez
And this surveillance video shot that is alleged to be Ramirez entering the hospital:

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And this photo of the tote bag the infant was placed in.

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4 comments
Mitchell_Young
Mitchell_Young

I like her enigmatic smile -- like a Mestizo Mona Lisa.

al12048
al12048

she just KNOWS shes gonna be munching carpet, or gettting carpet munched & dildoe'd till the cows cum home . @Mitchell_Young 

949girl
949girl topcommenter

I just don't understand some people.  Did she really think this plan would work?

BillxT
BillxT

 @949girl

 ... or understand the cold heartedness to do something like this to the other mom.

 

Lack of empathy seems to me to be at the root of many of our systemic troubles today.

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