The alleged kidnapper, identified as “Tatiana”, pretended to be a friend of the mother to take the baby from Cúcuta to Bucaramanga. A taxi driver found the minor in a cardboard box and notified the authorities
Officials of the Colombian National Police arrested a 38-year-old woman, known by the alias “Tatiana”, who had stolen a one-month-old baby from a 29-year-old Venezuelan citizen in Cúcuta and then abandoned it in the city of Cucuta. Bucaramanga.
“Alias Tatiana, using her profession as a nanny, and once she has gained her mother’s trust, she proceeds to kidnap him, transferring him from Bucaramanga to the city of Cúcuta. Two days later he leaves the baby abandoned on public roads, ”said Colonel Gelber Cortés, director of the Unified Action Groups for Personal Freedom (Gaula).
Alias ”Tatiana” committed the crime on August 29 and the Colombian authorities had been tracking her since then, thanks to the security cameras that allowed her to follow up from Cúcuta, when the woman took a taxi to another municipality in the department. Norte de Santander and then when she boarded a bus that took her to Bucaramanga.
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The image of the alleged kidnapper began to circulate in the media, which apparently motivated her to leave the newborn in a cardboard box in the Colorados neighborhood. The authorities assure that alias “Tatiana” had already sold the minor and had plans to take him out of the country.
Video: moment in which doctors from the Local Hospital of the North receive the baby that was found in an abandoned box in Bucaramanga. The minor had been kidnapped from his mother in Cúcuta and uniformed @PoliceBmanga they found him in the north of the city https://t.co/8vE0kp3SBb pic.twitter.com/nlGeurrykq
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Due to the police pressure of which the lady was preyed by Colombian officials, she walked between Cúcuta, the municipalities of Aguachica and San Martín, in the department of Cesar, to later be arrested in the Altos de Betania neighborhood.
A taxi driver was the person who found the newborn, who was later transferred to a hospital, where he was finally reunited with his mother.
With information from The nation / BluRadio / The Colombian / News Caracol TV /
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