GUILTY Canada - Baby Victoria, newborn, Trois Rivieres QC, 26 May 2014

[matou]

Four teenagers say they saw the Amber Alert on Facebook, and later recognized a woman fitting the suspect's description. (Mathieu Papillon)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/abducted-baby-back-with-family-1.2655252

 

[Salem]

So glad to see this baby has been found and is okay.

Salem

Good job on the part of the teens but

 

[SilkySifaka]

So glad to see this baby has been found and is okay.

Salem

Good job on the part of the teens but

They were great, taking the picture and actively looking for her. Social media rocks in cases like this.

 

[Wondergirl]

Baby Victoria's searchers thrilled newborn is now home

Friends saw Amber Alert on Facebook and recognized suspect in Trois-Rivières baby abduction

CBC News Posted: May 27, 2014 12:41 PM ET Last Updated: May 27, 2014 12:41 PM ET

The four friends were hanging out last night when they spotted news of the Amber Alert on Facebook.

“We said, ‘Why don’t we go look for the car? It couldn’t have gotten that far,’” said Charlène Plante.

As they were heading toward the hospital, they saw a picture of the suspect and a description of the vehicle posted on Facebook.

Plante said she immediately recognized the woman as her former neighbour.

The group went to the building where the former neighbour lived and saw a red car with a Baby on Board sign that matched the Amber Alert description.

“The patio door was open. The lights were on. It was clear that she was there,” said Mélizanne Bergeron.

The friends called the police and, within minutes, the baby was in the arms of police officers.

Two of the friends who have just graduated from nursing school, said they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the baby was healthy and had not been harmed.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...rchers-thrilled-newborn-is-now-home-1.2655593

 

[Wondergirl]

Mother recounts terror of baby’s abduction then the joy of her rescue

Keen sleuths saw Amber Alert and helped track down suspect

BY JASON MAGDER, THE GAZETTE MAY 27, 2014 12:00 PM

Mélissa McMahon said she realized something was wrong less than a minute after someone dressed as a nurse took her baby, Victoria, out of the hospital room, ostensibly to weigh her.

About 16 hours after giving birth, McMahon got out of her hospital bed and ran to pursue the woman who had abducted her newborn girl.

But it was too late. The woman had already left the hospital.

“I ran to the exit and even when I was there, so many patients and visitors (to the hospital) were helping and quickly gave us information about the woman, and the car she was driving,” McMahon wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday morning. “Thank you to those people, as well as the security personnel at the hospital who were able to find a photo (of the woman) with the help of police.”

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Mother+recounts+terror+baby+abduction+then+rescue/9881276/story.html

 

[Sin]

I am just so amazingly proud of those teenagers. They thought they had a lead and when they realized they did they called LE and let them handle it.

Reading these cases gets so difficult sometimes, but these are the ones that make it all worth it.

There is one very relieved mommy, and four very proud ones tonight.

 

[bakerlady]

She looks like she has moon face from taking steroids like prednisone. Even if not from medication she has a very very round face and it is not normal looking so I wonder if she had some type of insanity caused by prednisone.....it happens.

 

[Mountaingazer]

I can't quote because I am mobile, but did anyone else catch the bit in the article above about neighbors hearing a baby crying from the apartment in the days and weeks before she stole this baby?

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[matou]

Police have not identified her, but QMI Agency's French-language news service has learned her name is Valerie Poulin-Collins.

She is expected to be charged with kidnapping.

This photo doesn't look like the suspect image too much IMO.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/27/young-friends-help-rescue-baby-abducted-from-hospital

 

[LadyL]

she works at Tm Hortons & was in a relationship as of May 4:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/valerie.poulincollins?fref=ts

and she's studying to be a social worker :gasp:

 

[Wondergirl]

she works at Tm Hortons & was in a relationship as of May 4:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/valerie.poulincollins?fref=ts

and she's studying to be a social worker :gasp:

Eta - pic links won't work

 

[Ausgirl]

OMG thank god they found the little one. :faint:

I think all mothers here must have just had their blood run cold imagining this happening to them. I know I did. Poor family, what an ordeal.

Endless kudos to those for teenagers, I bet all families concerned are very proud of them. What great kids.

Wow, what a difference in face shape.. I have to wonder if she'd done something to make herself look different, knowing there'd be CCTV etc.. but I can't imagine what.

The one good thing from this is that she'll be never be a social worker now. :scared:

 

[blue22]

she works at Tm Hortons & was in a relationship as of May 4:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/valerie.poulincollins?fref=ts

and she's studying to be a social worker :gasp:

At least that's out of the question now.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/28/fake-nurse-suspected-in-baby-snatching-is-unconscious-in-hospital

The fake nurse arrested after allegedly snatching an infant from a hospital was unconscious Wednesday after overdosing on drugs.

The Crown says the woman, identified by friends as Valerie Poulin-Collins, can't be arraigned from her hospital bed or interrogated by police.

"At this time, (she is) still in stable condition," prosecutor Marie-Eve Paquet told QMI Agency. "She is still unconscious and intubated."

 

[TravelingBug]

Are they inferring she OD'd in the HOSPITAL?!

Poulin-Collins was taken into custody Monday evening in Trois-Rivieres, Que., after a day-old baby named Victoria was kidnapped from a local hospital.

(http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/2...-in-baby-snatching-is-unconscious-in-hospital)

There's NO mention of her having OD'd at that point.

Plus, it all happened so quickly, how would she have, unless she basically took the baby and went home and did it, that seems odd.

Heck, she wanted a baby so badly that she did this, it hardly seems likely she'd take her and then kill herself straight away. I mean, why kidnap the baby then!

And it was only 2 MINUTES from when the teens found her place and called police, so it's not like she had time to do it even if she had heard the teens outside having figured out what was going on (nor do I think the teens would have risked being loud enough to catch her attention)

And given the rescue was filmed by the teens, had she been in there OD'd it'd seem they'd have known and that info would have been out earlier, no? Especially since medics would have come as well once police realized it.

THIS article says she's hospitalized for "not being mentally well."

That is a VERY different thing than overdosing and being intubated...

A 21-year-old woman was arrested and is expected to face charges in a Trois-Rivières court Wednesday. She was taken to the same hospital for treatment. Reports said she was not mentally well.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news...baby+abduction+then+rescue/9881276/story.html

Then we get this (back to the same paper as the first part):

The suspect, 21, remained in hospital Tuesday, under heavy security. Police intend to question her further as soon as her condition permits.

(http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/27/young-friends-help-rescue-baby-abducted-from-hospital)

All those pieces don't seem to fit right article wise unless the OD happened later, do they?
So by Tuesday evening she's "remained" in the hospital - though it does NOT say why in this article, the phrasing sounds more like it could be mental illness than having overdosed.

Yet then that same paper is the one that says in the newer article that she's OD'd and intubated.

The woman accused of snatching a newborn from a Quebec hospital has been charged with two counts of child abduction despite being unconscious from a suspected drug overdose.

Valerie Poulin-Collins, 21,

remained intubated in intensive care Wednesday

, prosecutor Marie-Eve Paquet told QMI Agency.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/2...-in-baby-snatching-is-unconscious-in-hospital

 

[matou]

I think she may have taken the pills were she got to her home. Overdosing with a helpless abducted baby in her home. Wow.JMO

 

[newone]

The whole episode was so quick -- I was stunned to hear that this young woman was essentially on life support. Had me scratching my head on the how and when she achieved an o/d

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Facebook Sleuths Recall Hunt For Abducted Baby Victoria

Four strangers who used Facebook to help rescue a kidnapped newborn girl told NBC News on Thursday that the girl's safe return was "the best feeling of our lives."

The group took to the streets of Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, Canada after police issued an alert that a woman had disguised herself as a nurse, walked into a hospital maternity ward and made off with one-day–old Victoria McMahon.

They took to the streets after the girl's desperate father posted a description of the suspect's car on Facebook...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/facebook-sleuths-recall-hunt-abducted-baby-victoria-n117246

 

[newone]

2 year jail time for kidnapper

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ail-in-baby-victoria-abduction-case-1.2798196

''Valérie Poulin-Collins has been sentenced for two years less a day for kidnapping a newborn from a Trois-Rivières, Que. hospital in May."

"Poulin-Collins was charged with abduction and kidnapping. She also pleaded guilty to multiple counts of shoplifting and possession of methamphetamine. "

 

[musicaljoke]

In these parts, a person can't walk out of the maternity ward with a baby. They are fitted with little security bracelets, so that if you get close to an exit, the alarm goes off, and if you keep walking toward the door, it locks. I assume that the security device can't be improperly removed from the baby,