Mother Tells the Terrifying Story of Her Baby Being Abducted During a Hospital Stay

By Alessia Santoro

"The most terrifying thing happened to my family two days ago," starts Lory Beth Snyder in a post to Facebook that tells the chill-inducing story of her daughter, Lorelai, getting abducted during a hospital stay at NEA Baptist Memorial in Jonesboro, AR. After getting her child to rest after a long day of tests, poking, and prodding, Snyder decided to relax as well, and woke up an hour later to find her daughter missing.

"When I found her she was in another woman's hospital room, in that woman's arms, with a room full of six or seven nurses just laughing and playing with her," Snyder wrote. "I didn't know this lady. She was not a nurse or a doctor. Just another hospital patient."

And that's not even the most shocking part of the story.

I proceed to take Lorelai out of her arms. Even though she persisted that I return to my room, without Lorelai, she stated repeatedly that I needed to just go rest. I told her no, that I was fine, and I would be taking my daughter back now.

I removed Lorelai from her arms, and the nurses who had been standing around gathered up her things, because along with taking Lorelai she also took my diaper bag . . . We then returned to our room. Three nurses followed me. They all tried to assure me that my child was in no danger, that they knew the patient, and she meant no harm.

It was then that I looked up and saw that Ms. Harris (the woman, patient, whom had taken Lorelai) had also followed us back to our room. She once again persisted that I return Lorelai to her, and that I rest. . . . It was then that the nurses had to remove her from our room.

Afterwards, Snyder and her daughter were transferred to the ICU for security, and the distressed mom contacted the local police, who stated "that no crime was committed because Harris didn't 'intend' to rape or molest my child."

"Apparently anyone can take any child any where, and its not kidnapping as long as you don't intend to harm the child. . . . Thank the gods that my baby is safe. We were lucky. Many parents do not get as lucky as we have. Child abduction isn't something that should be so easily dismissed."