Google+

Newborn abducted from HUP (Update: mother charged)

August 25, 2011

Update 2: Tonya Dixon, the mother accused of abducting her 2-day-old baby from HUP yesterday, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child recklessly endangering another person.

Update: Police found the child and his mother at about 5 p.m. on the 6000 block of Kingsessing Avenue. The mother is currently in police custody. No charges have been filed yet. The baby will be returned to HUP.

Police are searching for a 39-year-old woman who abducted her 2-day-old boy at about noon today from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The child is a black male who, police say, needs medical attention and had been in the custody of the Department of Human Services.

The child was wearing a diaper and a one-piece outfit and an alarm censor was attached to the child’s umbilical cord. Police say the child was taken by 39-year-old Tonya Dixon, who is described as a black female last seen wearing cream-colored pants, a yellow shirt, black jacket and a long black wig. Police say Dixon left with the child in a silver Dodge four-door sedan that was driven by an unidentified person. A police source said the mother is “extremely unfit” to care for the child but did not elaborate.

Anyone with information about the abduction is urged to call 911.

 

3 Comments For This Post

  1. King Tristan Says:

    She should be charged with attempted murder. Absolutely repugnant.

  2. one9 Says:

    really? you find it disgusting for a mother to want to have her baby, (regardless of her “fitness”)?

  3. King Tristan Says:

    She endangered the child’s life. Yes, I find that disgusting.

Leave a Reply

6  +  4  =