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The drama of the stolen baby
A three-day infant allegedly spirited away from the Badulla General Hospital on Friday morning was found in a house at Taldena, 10 miles away, around midnight the same day, police said.
Badulla Police said they arrested, on suspicion, a 26-year-old woman living in the house. Investigations revealed she was a boarder in the house and was a resident of Weeriyapura in Badulla. The search began after Badulla Chief Inspector U.N.P. Liyanage received a tip-off giving the location of a house where a woman was keeping an infant. According to police, the woman had first attempted to mislead them saying the child was hers. When that failed, she told police she had lost a child of her own and stole the infant to compensate for the loss. The infant was brought back to the Badulla hospital around midnight. It was found the infant was born to 31-year-old K.Chandima last Tuesday. She said she kept the child on the hospital bed and went for a bath. On her return she found some inmates fondling the infant. The suspect was among them and had carried the child for a short while. The mother had gone again to get her wounds dressed and found her child missing on her return. Hospital authorities had then alerted the Badulla Police who received information that a woman was seen with the child boarding a bus bound for Mahiyangana. Mahiyangana and Kandaketiya police had then joined the search. The search ended when the final tip-off helped in finding the child around midnight. | ||||
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