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A woman has been charged with abduction after allegedly faking a pregnancy for nine months and attempting to snatch a baby from Middlemore Hospital.
Fijian-Indian woman Neha Narayan, 24, obtained the two-day-old Indian girl from the hospital last Wednesday.
Narayan tried to take the baby out of the hospital and into a parked car but was caught after a nurse and the girl's parents saw the woman leaving with their child.
It is alleged that the woman's elaborate plan started nine months earlier when she started posing as pregnant. It was understood she fooled her partner into believing her.
Last Wednesday morning she allegedly told her partner she was overdue and asked him to take her to hospital to be induced.
Her suspicious behaviour was quickly noticed by staff, several of whom spoke to her, said Counties Manukau police spokeswoman Ana-Mari Gates-Bowey.
"She had been patrolling the baby unit,'' she said.
Narayan was allegedly earlier found holding another baby and when she was confronted by the mother, said she was comforting it.
Afterwards she is understood to have removed the two-day old baby and taken her out of the hospital.
"A nurse followed her downstairs and out of the building to where [Narayan's] partner was waiting in the car''.
The parents also saw her carrying their child and alerted other staff who stopped the woman from getting away and called the police.
Narayan was arrested and charged with abduction of a young person.
She was been remanded on bail at a court appearance last week and will reappear in Manukau District Court this month.