The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Profiling an Infant Abductor & how Hospitals can help prevent Infant Abduction
- On Jan. 4, 2012, a woman posing as a hospital employee attempted to steal a two-day-old infant from an Atlanta hospital. Luckily an alarm and two alert hospital employees stopped this from happening.
- Every year the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children works with hospitals nationwide to train them in protecting infants and implementing stringent security measures.
- Our infant safety expert John Rabun worked with the Southern Regional Medical Center in May of 2001. John Rabun's assessment of the hospital staff was that they were extremely pro-active in making sure they had the best systems in place to prevent this type of crime. It was likely because of the hospital's preparedness that this incident ended as well as it did.
- Mr. Rabun can answer questions about safety measures that hospitals should be taking and can provide the typical profile of an infant abductor.
- It has been 20 months since an infant was abducted from a hospital health care facility in the United States.
- Every year there are approximately 4.3 million births in the United States at more than 3,500 birthing facilities.
- In 2009, there were 11 infant abductions, three from healthcare facilities and all were recovered unharmed.
- In 2010, there were four infant abductions, one from a healthcare facility and all were recovered unharmed.
- In 2011, there were eight abductions. None were from healthcare facilities and all were recovered unharmed.
If you would like to schedule an interview with infant safety expert John Rabun about ABDUCTOR PROFILES, HOSPITAL SAFETY or how the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children works with hospitals to prevent infant abductions and implement safety measures, please call 703-963-1749 or send an e-mail to media@ncmec.org.
CONTACT: National Center for Missing& Exploited Children, +1-703-837-6111, media@ncmec.org
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Jan. 6, 2012/
SOURCE National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
