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A Hanoi court on Monday sentenced a woman to four years in prison for kidnapping an infant from a local hospital shortly after his birth last November.
Nguyen Thi Le, 30, was ordered to pay VND24 million ($1,154) as compensation for the “mental suffering” of the infant's parents.
According to the indictment, on November 3, 2011, Le snuck into the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology and disguised herself by putting on a doctor’s smock.
She then entered the room where Tran Thi Thom, a 35-year-old woman hailing from Hung Yen Province, was staying. Thom had given birth to a baby boy, Pham Van Truong, two days earlier.
Le told the mother that she would take the baby to another room for some tests and then promptly fled the hospital.
Le later took a taxi to her mother’s home in the northern province of Bac Giang, before taking the baby to her husband’s home in Hanoi's Dong Anh District several days later.
After the baby’s family reported their missing child to police, more than 70 police officers were assigned to search for the baby.
Local media chipped in and the baby repeatedly made news headlines for several days, forcing the Ministry of Public Security to send its scouts to join the search.
As the hunt for Truong continued, on the morning of November 8, 2011, a taxi driver reported to the police that he had transported a suspicious-looking woman with an infant in her arms on November 3.
Nguyen Thi Le (C) being taken to court on Monday for kidnapping an infant shortly after his birth at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology last November.
Nguyen Xuan Viet of Tuan Linh Taxi Company, said the woman in her 30s had hailed his taxi to go from Hanoi to Bac Giang Province at around 11:30 a.m. on November 3.
During their conversation, the woman told Viet she had two children — a five-year-old and the one she was holding, a one-month old.
Viet told the police he believed something was fishy because the woman did not bring children’s clothes and other baby items with her, and she seemed anxious.
Following Viet’s tip, police tracked down the woman at her house and arrested her. The woman admitted her name was Nguyen Thi Le and later confessed to the kidnapping.
Le claimed that she kidnapped Truong because she wanted to replace her baby, who was stillborn, and con her husband’s family into thinking that she gave birth to the baby.
Nguyen Thi Le, 30, was ordered to pay VND24 million ($1,154) as compensation for the “mental suffering” of the infant's parents.
According to the indictment, on November 3, 2011, Le snuck into the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology and disguised herself by putting on a doctor’s smock.
She then entered the room where Tran Thi Thom, a 35-year-old woman hailing from Hung Yen Province, was staying. Thom had given birth to a baby boy, Pham Van Truong, two days earlier.
Le told the mother that she would take the baby to another room for some tests and then promptly fled the hospital.
Le later took a taxi to her mother’s home in the northern province of Bac Giang, before taking the baby to her husband’s home in Hanoi's Dong Anh District several days later.
After the baby’s family reported their missing child to police, more than 70 police officers were assigned to search for the baby.
Local media chipped in and the baby repeatedly made news headlines for several days, forcing the Ministry of Public Security to send its scouts to join the search.
As the hunt for Truong continued, on the morning of November 8, 2011, a taxi driver reported to the police that he had transported a suspicious-looking woman with an infant in her arms on November 3.
Nguyen Thi Le (C) being taken to court on Monday for kidnapping an infant shortly after his birth at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology last November.
Nguyen Xuan Viet of Tuan Linh Taxi Company, said the woman in her 30s had hailed his taxi to go from Hanoi to Bac Giang Province at around 11:30 a.m. on November 3.
During their conversation, the woman told Viet she had two children — a five-year-old and the one she was holding, a one-month old.
Viet told the police he believed something was fishy because the woman did not bring children’s clothes and other baby items with her, and she seemed anxious.
Following Viet’s tip, police tracked down the woman at her house and arrested her. The woman admitted her name was Nguyen Thi Le and later confessed to the kidnapping.
Le claimed that she kidnapped Truong because she wanted to replace her baby, who was stillborn, and con her husband’s family into thinking that she gave birth to the baby.
