Police arrested a nurse on Wednesday night who allegedly kidnapped a newborn baby from a public health center in Kembangan, West Jakarta.
The nurse, whose initial was S, was arrested at her home in Cipondoh, Tangerang.
Jakarta Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said that the nurse had been named as a suspect and was being investigated by the West Jakarta Police.
“The motive was probably because she wanted to have a child. She has had multiple miscarriages,” Boy Rafli Amar said. He said Nurse S, who worked part-time at the health center, was not related to a child trafficking syndicate.
The baby was returned to his mother, Murtanti, at the health center. Murtanti and her husband said they knew it was their baby from a distinguishing mark on the baby’s ears.
“I know it’s our baby. His face looks very much like his mother,” said Murtanti’s husband, Edi.
He planned a small ceremony for the baby’s safe return.
“We want to have a ceremony and also to announce his name, even though so far we have only decided his first name, Putra,” Edi said.
Murtanti and Edi’s baby was kidnapped 12 hours after it was born on Saturday, January 9. According to Boy Rafli Amar, the kidnapping was believed to be premeditated because Nurse S conducted an observation before she picked Murtanti’s baby.
Boy said Nurse S went to the health center on Friday afternoon on an ojek, or motorcycle taxi.
“There was an ojek driver who helped her. We are still investigating his role,” Boy said.
Upon arriving, Nurse S inspected all babies in the Anggrek Room and Cempaka Room at the clinic. Nurse S entered Murtanti’s room and told her that the baby must be examined. She took the baby and left on the ojek at 6:20 p.m.
The case sparked public concern and sympathy because the timing coincided with the finding of a mutilated body of a boy in East Jakarta and the arrest of a bus driver who sexually abused 14 street children.
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