Mexican authorities are trying to find the babysitter who allegedly kidnapped a baby in the state of Hidalgo after drugging his parents, and will also issue an arrest warrant for a police officer suspected of having helped in the theft of the newborn.
After two distressing days, the little boy's mother was finally able to reunite with her son, Noticias Telemundo reported.
The baby, after the rescue. Telemundo News
The baby, who had been stolen in the Renacimiento neighborhood of Pachuca, in the state of Hidalgo, was found around noon last Saturday inside a bag abandoned in the streets in the Guadalupana II neighborhood, in Valle de Chalco, in the state of Mexico, indicated the newspaper Milenio.
Salvador Cruz Neri, Secretary of Security of Hidalgo, told Noticias Telemundo that the minor
was in good health
.
"He is safe, he is fine and his mother is with him."
The official also revealed that a police officer had helped carry out the kidnapping.
"He is
an active police officer
from here, from Valle de Chalco," he confirmed.
After kidnapping the baby, the authorities said, the couple took the newborn to the state of Mexico.
In a statement, they stated that after an analysis of the cameras "we can see the entry and exit of the taxi, how two people get out, one of them carrying something in his arms, apparently the baby, and another person with a male appearance."
So far, authorities do not know the whereabouts of the baby's captors.
"There is an Amber alert, there is collaboration with Interpol, with a red and a yellow alert. We are going to continue the investigations" as far as necessary, Francisco Hernández, in charge of the office of the Hidalgo Attorney General's Office, told Noticias Telemundo.
The Interpol red alert is a request addressed to law enforcement agencies around the world to detain a person pending extradition or delivery to the country where they have allegedly committed a crime.
For its part, the Interpol yellow alert is used for the global location of a missing person.
It is generally issued to help victims of parental abductions, kidnappings, or unexplained disappearances.
It can also be used to help determine a person's identity.
The Hidalgo state police placed security filters at exits from the state, which probably forced the kidnappers to abandon the baby in a bag on the street.
"The baby was between blankets and, furthermore, in the same clothes in which he disappeared," authorities said.
The first investigations did not reveal any link between those suspected of having committed the kidnapping and
any gang dedicated to the kidnapping of minors
.
Authorities identified the kidnapping suspect as Nely Janel Ramírez, who worked as a nanny for the family.
The police report stated that last Thursday morning, January 25, when the family was still asleep, apparently due to the effects of a tea that the suspect had supposedly given them to drink the night before, a neighbor approached the house and He noticed that the door was open, so he decided to enter to check on the family's well-being.
That was the moment when the baby's mother woke up and
noticed the child's absence
, it was then that she alerted the police with the help of the neighbor.
The family reported that money and three cell phones had also been stolen from them, according to authorities cited by the newspaper La Jornada.