Morocco: Pharmacist steals newborns from hospitals to be trafficked

Morocco witnessed a horrific incident, in which a woman infiltrated the maternity ward of a hospital and stole a child, then bargained with his mother to give her her second child, the "stolen twin".

The Moroccan newspaper, Hespress, reported that the woman who stole the baby was a pharmacist assistant.

The newspaper quoted security sources as saying that the assistant pharmacist, who works in a pharmacy in Casablanca, entered Al-Mansour Regional Hospital, to bargain with the mother over money in exchange for a baby from among the twins she bore.

The sources indicated that the security guard of the regional hospital was behind the explosion of this incident, after he doubted the pharmacist's help during her entry into the health institution.

After entering the accused, wearing a white coat, the security guard asked for her identity.

She rose up in his face and tried to remove him.

Which increased his suspicions and prevented her from entering.

The accused broke the guard's phone so that he could not report it to the police.

But he resisted her and started contacting hospital officials, before contacting the security services, where the accused was arrested and transferred with the aim of interrogating her, only to find out that she was intending to trade in a newborn baby.

According to the investigations, it is not the first time that the accused has carried out this operation, as she had previously taken a similar step.

The accused pharmacist's assistant was presented before the Public Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal in Casablanca, on charges of impersonation and attempting to traffic in infants.

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