Device Stops Hospital Baby Abductions

Santa Monica - When someone snatches an infant from a hospital, the newborns are often smuggled right past nursing stations and out the door. Many hospitals are taking abduction protection to a new level with a new electronic device.

Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center is one Los Angeles area hospital that's using the anti-kidnapping safety device. Hospital officials tell us that they've lost no babies, and they say the My Child Infant Protection System (My Child, for short) plays a part in that success.

Here's how it works... the My Child device is put in a clamp and snapped onto the newborn's still-attached umbilical cord.

If someone tries to remove the baby wearing the device from a designated area, an alarm goes off... doors automatically lock... and monitors at the nurses' station report the exact location of the attempted abduction.

Parent:
"It's like having a baby LoJack. No body's going to be taking our kid anywhere."

Vernon Goodwin, Hospital Security Director:
"You were not going anywhere. As soon as you walk into that field, that door actually engages our mag locks and you cannot get out."

McRoberts Security Technologies designed the baby tracker.

Meredith McRoberts, McRoberts Security Technologies:
"It's prevented a number of abductions around the country. And we have evidence that abductors when they see the system will choose other hospital without the security system."

Use of the My Child baby tracker is growing fast. Some 600 hospitals are already using it across the country.

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