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Police: Woman Attempts To Kidnap Baby

Unclear If Woman Has Relationship With Child

POSTED: 11:37 am CST December 31, 2008
UPDATED: 12:53 pm CST January 1, 2009

Metro police said security thwarted the attempted kidnapping of a child at Metro General Hospital Wednesday morning.

6 p.m. Report | Noon Report

Police said a Adriene Johnson, 24, entered the hospital around 9:30 a.m. wearing hospital scrubs, proceeded to the fourth floor and walked into a mother's room. Johnson told nurses that she was a visiting friend, police said.

Johnson told the 23-year-old mother that she needed to take her child to have its temperature taken. Police said Johnson tried to leave the hospital, but triggered hospital security, causing the maternity area to be put on lockdown.

Johnson then tried to hand the newborn to a doctor and leave the hospital but was detained by hospital staff until police arrived.

"Security at the hospital apparently stopped the woman, so it's not believed she was an employee," said Metro police spokeswoman Kristen Helm. "The relationship between this woman and the mother is unknown. Again, it's very early. We're still talking to the woman."

Johnson, a Nashville resident, was free on a $2,000 bond after being accused of stealing a baby rocker at a Wal-Mart on Charlotte Pike on Dec. 29 and then attempting to return it for cash.

Police said they are looking for a red Chevrolet Impala because the woman may have had an accomplice who was going to help them escape.


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