Police in in Itambura, Goiás, south eastern Brazil, release details of how a doctor ‘kidnapped newborn baby from mother’s bedside in hospital’

Dr. Claudia Alves, 42, a registered neurologist, who is also a professor at two universities, was arrested at her home Wednesday morning in Itambura, Goiás

Alves was charged with kidnapping and faces up to eight years in prison if she is found guilty, because the kidnap victim is under the age of 18

Alves allegedly duped a family into stealing their baby, before stuffing her into a backpack and escaping the hospital in the middle of the night on Tuesday

Alves managed to abduct the baby just three hours after she was born when she walked into the parents’ room at Uberlândia Federal University Hospital Clinic

She identified herself as a pediatrician who was there to feed their daughter

She was seen on a hospital surveillance camera carrying the baby, wrapped up in a blanket

She headed to her car and drove 83 miles to her residence in Itambura

Dr. Claudia Alves was seen on a surveillance camera with a newborn she kidnapped after deceiving the parents that she was going to feed her as the ‘mother didn’t have milk to breastfeed her’. She smuggled the infant in a backpack out to her car and fled

Authorities have identified the woman accused of kidnapping a newborn girl from a hospital in Brazil as a registered neurologist, who is also a professor at two universities.
Dr. Claudia Alves, 42, was arrested at her home Wednesday morning in Itambura, Goiás, south eastern Brazil. Police said she duped a family into stealing their baby, before stuffing her into a backpack and escaping the hospital in the middle of the previous night. 

Dr. Claudia Alves, [photo], a registered neurologist and university professor, was arrested Wednesday morning for the abduction of a newborn infant, three hours after she was born at a hospital in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil on Tuesday night 

The infant was reunited with her parents at a hospital later in the day.
Alves managed to abduct the baby just three hours after she was born when she walked into the parents’ room at Uberlândia Federal University Hospital Clinic and identified herself as a pediatrician who was there to feed their daughter, it’s alleged.
The doctor was seen on a hospital surveillance camera carrying the baby, wrapped in a blanket, out of the facility to her car before she drove to her home – 83 miles away in Itambura.
Police found the baby the kidnapper then left the baby at her home with her maid. The infant was reunited with her parents at a hospital later in the day.

Alves managed to abduct the baby just three hours after she was born when she walked into the parents’ room at Uberlândia Federal University Hospital Clinic and identified herself as a pediatrician who was there to feed their daughter, it’s alleged.
The doctor was seen on a hospital surveillance camera carrying the baby, wrapped in a blanket, out of the facility to her car before she drove to her home – 83 miles away in Itambura.
When police found the baby, the kidnapper left the baby at her home with her maid, according to local media reports.

Dr. Claudia Alves, [photo], walked into Uberlândia Federal University Hospital Clinic in Uberlândia, Brazil on Tuesday night and kidnapped a baby girl just three hours after she was born. She stuffed the baby inside her yellow backpack, before rushing out of the facility

Surveillance cameras footage show the doctor headed for the exit at the Hospital Clinic with the newborn baby stuffed in her yellow backpack

Officers took the baby to a local medical facility, and deployed others to lie in wait for Alves near the residence who was arrested on her return.  
Isabella Inácio told Metrópoles news that the baby has a heart condition and will be requiring special care. 
Uberlândia Civil Police chief Marcos Brandão said the baby is in good health. 
‘She underwent tests and is fine. There is no sign of mistreatment,’ Brandão said, as quoted by Brazilian news outlet G1. 

Police said baby Ferreira is in good health and ‘doing fine’ after she was located Wednesday morning. She has been reunited with her family

Goiás Civil Police said Alves confessed to arresting officers that she was ill and that she was on medication.
However, Civil Police chief Anderson Pelágio told TV Anhanguera that they doubted her claims because Alves had previously purchased clothing and accessories for the baby prior to the kidnapping.
New details have revealed that Alves’ car was filled with baby items – including pink clothing and changing bags filled with diapers. 

The baby’s dad, Édson Ferreira [photo], who was with his family in the hospital room said the fake kidnapper told his wife that she was a ‘pediatrician and that she was going to take the baby to feed her’

Uberlândia Civil Police chief, Marcos Brandão, FM O Tempo 91.7 radio that investigators learned of Alves’ whereabouts after camera snapped her photo after she failed to pay at a highway toll booth.
Inside her home, she also had a pink baby bath, a stroller, a baby car seat, as well as formula to feed a newborn baby and pink Disney toys. 
‘She bought several items for the baby, such as diapers and a stroller, which suggests that she planned the events,’ the police said. ‘She did not show any motivation or whether she was going to keep the baby, register it in her name or give it to a third party.’ 
Alves was charged with kidnapping and faces up to eight years in prison if she is found guilty, because the victim is under the age of 18. 

Dr Alves was arrested Wednesday morning after police found the newborn baby she abducted from the hospital in good health at her home. Cops also recovered diapers and other accessories that had hidden in the trunk of her car

Surveillance video showed the suspect stepping out of a red vehicle at 11:18 pm wearing a lab coat, cap, face mask, gloves and yellow backpack as she walked towards the clinic on Tuesday.
At 11:46 pm, the woman was spotted walking next to a hospital worker with the baby stuffed in the backpack.
Nine minutes passed before security cameras showed her walking towards the car with the baby in one of her hands before speeding away.
The baby’s father, Édson Ferreira, previously told the station that Alves went to their room where his daughter and his wife were recovering following the 8 pm delivery by cesarean section.
Along with the security guards, they were ‘fooled’ by the woman’s behavior during the five minutes she spent in the room. 

Brazilian authorities believe Alves had planned to kidnap a baby from a hospital after they discovered diapers, a stroller and other baby accessories from the trunk of her car

He recalled Alves touching his wife’s breasts to check if she would be able to breastfeed her and then told her that she would be taking the girl to feed her milk.
‘She was very articulate. She came in and touched my wife’s breasts to see if she had milk,’ Ferreira recalled. 
‘She said she was a pediatrician and that she was going to take the baby to feed her.
‘Minutes later, I saw that my little girl hadn’t come back, and that’s when we realized that she had been taken.’
The Military Police said the suspect placed the baby in the backpack and walked out of the hospital without being detected.
‘It’s a relief just to see my daughter again,’ Ferreira said. ‘There’s no price I can pay. May justice be served, may this woman really be arrested and this never happen to anyone else.’
On her social media networks, Alves states that she had been teaching part-time at Uberlândia Federal University since May. 
She also listed that has been a full-time professor at Goiás State University Faculty of Medicine since 2019.

Dr. Claudia Alves was arrested Wednesday for the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a hospital in Uberlândia, Brazil. Alves is also a professor at two universities. She has been charged with kidnapping and faces up to 8 years in prison if convicted

Surveillance footage shows Dr. Claudia Alves carrying the newborn girl she has been accused of kidnapping from the hospital out to her car

Alves according to local media, claimed to have obtained her medicine degree from the Uberlândia Federal University at Triângulo Mineiro in 2004, her residency in clinical medicine at the school in 2007. 
Later in 2011, Alves completed her neurology residence at the same university.
‘Medicine is a roller coaster of emotions! It has its ups and downs, its challenges and its victories, but one thing is certain: I love what I do,’ She wrote on her profile.
Uberlândia Federal University Hospital Clinic is investigating the incident.