The woman suspected to have kidnapped a newborn boy from the DMCH neonatal ward last week has been identified with the help of CCTV footage and a visitor’s log book.
According to the register book maintained by the on-duty Ansar member, the woman’s name was Parvin, who was a resident of Chashara in Narayanganj. However, the name or the address could not be verified immediately.
In the CCTV footage, the woman was seen to enter the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) with the missing baby and coming out of there after 15 minutes.
After analysing the CCTV footage at the hospital director’s office for several hours yesterday, the missing child’s mother Runa, father Babul and grandmother Gulnur Begum unanimously identified a woman in a pink sari to be the alleged kidnapper.
Brig Gen Mustafizur Rahman, director of Dhaka Medical College Hopsital, told the Dhaka Tribune that the kidnapper has been identified and a clear snapshot has been collected from the CCTV footage which would help in rescuing the missing child.
Saying the CCTV footage would be provided to Shahbagh police station, he urged the media to publish the photograph of the kidnapper to help find the missing child.
The baby’s grandmother had at first misidentified the alleged kidnapper as a woman wearing a green sari, the hospital director said.
However, after re-analysing the CCTV footage to find out who had entered or exited the ward with a baby in their arms, it was seen that a woman wearing a pink sari had entered the room at 12:15pm. The woman was also seen to have said something and take water from Gulnur during the time she stayed inside the ward.
The CCTV footage, time-stamped at 12:30pm, also showed on-duty ward boy Shafiq and an Ansar member brought the woman out from the room.
There are allegations that hospital staff and security personnel might have been involved in the kidnapping of the child.
On August 21, a woman befriended the mother of the two-day-old baby before carrying the infant out of the hospital in broad daylight, in plain view of law enforcement personnel and under the noses of closed-circuit camera staff.
