Sudbury, Ont., Hospital Where Baby Was Taken to Start Tagging Infants

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

SUDBURY, Ont. – A northern Ontario hospital from where a baby girl was abducted this month will implement an infant-tagging system by Christmas.

Infants at the Sudbury Regional hospital will be outfitted with bracelets that trigger doors and stairwells to lock automatically if a baby is taken.

The new measure follows a review of security at the hospital after the day-old baby went missing for several hours on Nov. 1.

An Amber Alert was issued and the girl was found several hours later in Kirkland Lake, a town about five hours away from Sudbury.

Brenda Batisse, a 29-year-old mother, is charged and was denied bail in court Tuesday.

The hospital will also post a security guard to the maternity ward and require a baby’s “support person,” for example the father, to wear an identifying arm band.