Hospital Baby Snatcher Gets 5 Years
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 18:00 CDT
A Canadian judge Wednesday sentenced a Northern Ontario woman to five years in prison for kidnapping a newborn from a hospital last year.
Brenda Batisse, 29, pleaded guilty to the November 2007 kidnapping of an hours-old baby girl from the Sudbury Regional Hospital, which was captured clearly on hospital security video, CTV News reported.
The sentence came as a shock to Batisse and defense attorney Berk Keaney, who told reporters an appeal would be filed. Keaney had sought two years of house arrest and community service instead of jail for his client, a mother of two. Her past victimization of childhood of sexual abuse and neglect were cited during the trial, CTV said.
Justice of the Peace Rob Gordon justified his sentence in describing the ramifications of the abduction, Sudbury's Northernlife.ca reported.
It's an offense that strikes a personal chord with all parents ... and involves an utterly defenseless child, the justice said. It's not hard to imagine the impact this has had on the hospital workers. And there will be significant long-term effects on this child, her parents and her siblings.
The infant was found safe more than 100 miles away from the hospital eight hours after the kidnapping, police said.
Source: United Press International
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