Crime & Safety

Amber Alert Issued for Baby Missing from Magee-Womens Hospital

Pittsburgh Police are questioning a woman in the apparent abduction of an infant boy, who has not been located.

Law enforcement authorities around western Pennsylvania are searching for a 3-day-old boy who was abducted today from Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC in Oakland, according to police and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Pittsburgh Police this afternoon are questioning a woman located at a house in Wilkinsburg in connection with the abduction, according to the Post-Gazette and KDKA-TV. 

A woman took the 3-day-old black infant from Magee at about 2:30 p.m., according to the Amber Alert notice.

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Investigators said the woman who took the baby is black, weighs about 180 pounds, wore her hair in a pony tail and was dressed in medical scrubs, according to the Amber Alert. The woman is not believed to be a UPMC worker, according to a statement released by hospital officials.

In the statement, UPMC officials confirmed the abduction of the baby boy from the hospital while his family was preparing to take him home.

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Hospital officials have implemented lockdown and other security procedures and are working with investigators, according to the statement.

Authorities have not released the baby's name or community where his family lives. The woman who abducted the baby is believed to be a stranger to his parents, according to the Post-Gazette.

Anyone with information about the baby's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or notify local police.

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