Police arrest woman accused of trying to kidnap 3-year-old from Pierce County hospital
A woman tried to kidnap a toddler from the emergency department Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, police said in a news release.
Hospital security officials had a 45-year-old woman in custody when officers arrived shortly after 1 p.m. at the lobby of the emergency room at 401 15th Ave. SE.
“Based on witness accounts at the scene, officers learned that the 3-year-old victim was sitting in the emergency department waiting room with her mother when the suspect abruptly picked her up and began walking away with her,” police said in the news release.
Then the child’s mother, security officials, other hospital workers and a friend stepped in.
“The suspect refused to break her grasp of the child, and it took several people using force to break the child free,” the news release said, and the child suffered “minor injuries as a result of the suspect’s grasp.”
Officers booked the woman into the Pierce County Jail on suspicion of second-degree kidnapping.
