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.
August 25th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
She should be charged with attempted murder. Absolutely repugnant.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:57 am
really? you find it disgusting for a mother to want to have her baby, (regardless of her “fitness”)?
August 27th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
She endangered the child’s life. Yes, I find that disgusting.