Maj. Abdul Mohsen Al-Maiman, spokesman of Makkah police, said the Haia officers apprehended the woman during a sting operation. “The officers negotiated with the woman to get a baby and she agreed to bring one for SR20,000,” Al-Maiman said.
The arrest took place when the woman reached Ajyad with the baby whom she brought from Jeddah. The Haia officials handed over the woman to Ajyad police. The woman has denied that she was kidnapping babies and said she brought the baby boy from Jeddah to hand him over to his relatives in Makkah.
“Ajyad police then passed the case to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution to complete investigation with the woman in order to find out the truth,” the spokesman told Arab News.
Last year, an unidentified person kidnapped a baby boy from a Madinah hospital. The child's grandmother alleged a large dark woman with honey eyes who frequently visited the room where the child and mother were was behind the kidnapping. The baby was found in a Madinah park after a few days.
The son's father received an SMS message saying the child is in Azizia's Baeejan Park. "A relative of the child then went to the park and found the child there," one source said. Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed had ordered a search for the child. He also ordered an investigation into the child’s disappearance.
