Horror moment ‘cradle snatcher’ is seen fleeing from hospital with newborn baby wrapped in arms after posing as nurse
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WATCH the sinister moment a "cradle snatcher" who posed as a nurse flees from hospital with a stolen baby wrapped in her arms. Natalia Edith González, 39, was arrested for allegedly nabbing the newborn from a hospital in Paraguay - and was just 50 metres from escaping over the Argentine border with it.
![[CCTV footage of a woman holding a baby in a hospital hallway.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/i-later-asked-daughter-baby-965522240.jpg?strip=all&w=361)
It's believed she was on the hunt for an infant to steal after lying to her family - including her partner - about being pregnant, and identified a target after scouring three hospitals. Her attempt to abduct the day-old baby was caught on CCTV inside the Barrio Obrero Public Hospital in the Paraguayan capital Asunción.
![[CCTV footage of a woman carrying a baby in a hospital corridor.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/i-later-asked-daughter-baby-965522649.jpg?strip=all&w=414)
Footage shows the woman dressed in a grey uniform pushing through a door and into the corridor with a bundle in her arms. She walks to the far end and lingers there whilst another woman enters the passage. When the coast is clear, the woman breaks out into a run, tightly clutching a large pink bag.
![[Arrest of a woman accused of stealing a newborn baby from a hospital.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/df772c4c-88b3-4903-8440-cdf7539a66ab.jpg?strip=all&w=472)
Footage of the arrest shows the woman grappling with police who are trying to handcuff her, whilst the baby is safely back in the arms of a family member. The suspect, an Argentine national, was reportedly posing as a nurse and wearing a face mask when the one-day-old baby was taken.
![[CCTV footage of a woman leaving a hospital with a baby.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/i-later-asked-daughter-baby-965522431.jpg?strip=all&w=454)
The grandmother of the infant’s 19-year-old mum said she drank tea with the fake nurse before the alleged kidnapping. She claimed to the grandmother that she was at the hospital visiting an uncle. The granny said: “I later asked my daughter where the baby was and she told me that the nurse had taken her to the paediatric ward.
![[Video still of a woman holding a baby, with another woman standing nearby.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/b3f8cd9a-e7af-4a77-a383-2d0663af1d00.jpg?strip=all&w=470)
