{"id":1556197,"date":"2022-07-15T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556197"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:19:38","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-woman-stealing-a-baby-from-a-u-s-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-woman-stealing-a-baby-from-a-u-s-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Woman Stealing A Baby From A U.S. Hospital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-woman-stealing-a-baby-from-a-u-s-hospital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=550875573492321&#038;set=gm.6094454330569173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a woman wanted for stealing a newborn infant from a hospital in the U.S.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7473593\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7473593\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7473593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM.png\" alt=\"Facebook\/Screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM.png 682w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM-105x120.png 105w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM-541x620-1.png 541w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM-768x879-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM-1536x1758-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-13-at-3.20.38-PM-2048x2345-1.png 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7473593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The woman pictured was arrested for stealing a newborn baby from a hospital in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The July 11 Facebook post features an image of a woman in medical scrubs carrying a baby in her arms. Its caption claims she was \u201con the loose\u201d after posing as a nurse and stealing a 27-year-old mother\u2019s two-day-old son from a Philadelphia hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis woman impersonated herself as a nurse and stole a 2day old baby boy from a local hospital in (Philadelphia ),\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cShe was caught on camera and is on the loose and if anyone sees her please report this to your nearest police station and share this post so we help the 27year old first-time mother in reuniting with her son!\u201d Similar posts claim the same woman was pictured stealing a child <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=179853374443074&#038;set=gm.2074015929467254&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elsewhere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=177528771350312&#038;set=gm.3241397309412107&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the incident did not occur in the U.S. <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SunStarPhilippines\">SunStar Philippines<\/a> posted CCTV footage on YouTube on Jan. 4, 2016, that showed the same woman holding a baby, indicating that she had stolen the child from Cebu, Philippines\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsmmc.doh.gov.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Additionally, Cebu Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/cebudailynews.inquirer.net\/80601\/stolen-baby-found-suspect-claims-she-gave-birth-to-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a> a photo of her wearing different clothing. She was identified as call center agent Melissa Londres, the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/cebudailynews.inquirer.net\/80601\/stolen-baby-found-suspect-claims-she-gave-birth-to-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Londres was later arrested and admitted to stealing the baby, who was sent back to the hospital to be examined, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnphilippines.com\/regional\/2016\/01\/06\/Woman-who-stole-baby-I-did-it-to-save-my-relationship-with-bf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Philippines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact found no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Woman+steals+baby+from+hospital+US&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Woman+steals+baby+from+hospital+US&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.4830j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> about a woman stealing a newborn baby from a hospital in the U.S. this year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/06\/04\/fact-check-riley-hospital-chidlren-fire-indianapolis-george-floyd-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Riley Hospital For Children In Indianapolis Set On Fire During George Floyd Protests?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/06\/fact-check-new-york-hospitals-refusing-release-newborn-babies-unvaccinated-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrected<\/a> a rumor in October 2021 that alleged New York hospitals were refusing to release newborn babies to parents who had not been vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman pictured was arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}