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Missing 5-day-old girl found in Texas
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS(CNN) -- An ailing 5-day-old girl, snatched from her mother by a woman who had posed as a hospital worker, has been found and is being evaluated at University Medical Center, hospital spokesman Greg Bruce said. Priscilla Nicole Maldonado was diagnosed with jaundice soon after her birth Wednesday, and a woman wearing hospital scrubs stopped to check on her several times before she and her mother were discharged, said Lt. Roy Bassett, a Lubbock Police Department spokesman. The girl and her mother, Erica Ysasaga, were discharged Friday. On Sunday, the woman -- who identified herself as "Lisa Stewart" -- went to Ysasaga's house offering to check up on the girl. Ysasaga told investigators she went for a walk with the woman, who told her she wanted to show the infant to relatives nearby. The woman took off with Ysasaga's baby, the mother said, when she became distracted by another child. The woman, in an effort to gain her confidence, had given the mother a false driver's license number and Social Security number, Bassett said. (Watch how the woman gained access to the baby -- 2:51) Bassett said investigators have no indication the woman worked at the hospital and she "apparently just donned scrubs to make it appear she was an employee." "It appears that she established something of a relationship -- went in at the hospital, presented herself as a nurse, checked on the status of the baby and that kind of stuff," he said. Bassett said he had "no clue" as to a possible motive for the reported kidnapping. "Obviously, this was something that was planned over a period of days," Bassett said. 
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