AMBER ALERT!
Missing--Priscilla Nicole Maldonado
LUBBOCK, Texas — Police on Monday were searching for a woman who allegedly posed as a nurse to kidnap a newborn baby while the infant's mother was tending to one of her other children in her Texas home.
Police were searching for Priscilla Nicole Maldonado, who is younger than one week, has jaundice and is in need of medical care. The alleged abductor finagled the mother into disclosing her home address under the farce of checking on the infant's health, police said. “She appeared at the hospital in scrubs,” Lt. Roy Bassett of the Lubbock Police Department said. “The nurses assumed she was [a friend] of the family’s.”
The woman, who claimed her name is Lisa Stewart, “made her way into the mother’s confidence” with repeated visits to the hospital room and home and by calling Priscilla "beautiful" and saying the infant should be entered in pageants, Bassett said. She visited the family under the pretense that she was checking on the baby’s health and said she would give the infant a swing and some clothes, police said.
She stopped by the family's home on Sunday afternoon, then disappeared with the newborn while the infant's mother, Erica Ysasaga, was tending to her 2-year-old son, police said. "She most likely is local," Bassett said of the woman.
Authorities do not believe the woman was a University Medical Center employee based on the color of the medical scrubs she wore and that she was not wearing a name tag. No one at the hospital was familiar with her and there was "nothing to indicate right now that she was an employee of any kind," Bassett said.
While the mother was in the hospital, the suspect had asked questions about the baby and sometimes helped Ysasaga with small tasks such as retrieving towels, the family said. "She knew a lot of things that sounded like a nurse would know," Priscilla Madrid, said the missing newborn's aunt.
Police said the woman is Caucasian, between 140 and 150 pounds and 5 feet 4 inches tall. The dirty blonde last was seen in a red dress with yellow flowers and was said to be in her 30s. Police said she might be driving a white van or a red four-door Pontiac Firebird or Grand Am.
Police were searching for Priscilla Nicole Maldonado, who is younger than one week, has jaundice and is in need of medical care. The alleged abductor finagled the mother into disclosing her home address under the farce of checking on the infant's health, police said. “She appeared at the hospital in scrubs,” Lt. Roy Bassett of the Lubbock Police Department said. “The nurses assumed she was [a friend] of the family’s.”
The woman, who claimed her name is Lisa Stewart, “made her way into the mother’s confidence” with repeated visits to the hospital room and home and by calling Priscilla "beautiful" and saying the infant should be entered in pageants, Bassett said. She visited the family under the pretense that she was checking on the baby’s health and said she would give the infant a swing and some clothes, police said.
She stopped by the family's home on Sunday afternoon, then disappeared with the newborn while the infant's mother, Erica Ysasaga, was tending to her 2-year-old son, police said. "She most likely is local," Bassett said of the woman.
Authorities do not believe the woman was a University Medical Center employee based on the color of the medical scrubs she wore and that she was not wearing a name tag. No one at the hospital was familiar with her and there was "nothing to indicate right now that she was an employee of any kind," Bassett said.
While the mother was in the hospital, the suspect had asked questions about the baby and sometimes helped Ysasaga with small tasks such as retrieving towels, the family said. "She knew a lot of things that sounded like a nurse would know," Priscilla Madrid, said the missing newborn's aunt.
Police said the woman is Caucasian, between 140 and 150 pounds and 5 feet 4 inches tall. The dirty blonde last was seen in a red dress with yellow flowers and was said to be in her 30s. Police said she might be driving a white van or a red four-door Pontiac Firebird or Grand Am.
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