Sad case but still evil

Stuff reports:

A woman falsely claiming to be pregnant allegedly attempted to abduct a baby from Middlemore Hospital and got the child to a parked car before she was stopped.

It’s understood Neha Narayan carried the baby out of the hospital to a waiting car last Wednesday after being handed the one-day-old girl by a staff member who assumed she was the mother.

The alleged abduction was only foiled after the girl’s parents saw the woman leave and alerted hospital staff.

Counties Manukau police spokeswoman Ana-Mari Gates-Bowey said Narayan had falsely claimed to be pregnant for nine months before telling her partner she was overdue and needed to be taken to hospital to be induced.

She allegedly tried to steal a second baby also.

This is a court case, and there may be facts that come out in court. I’m not commenting on guilt vs innocence. But I do want to comment on the mentality of someone who would try and steal a baby.

In the first instance, I think they probably have serious psychological problems, and they need help. And they should get it.

But despite any psychological problems, it is a quite evil thing to do, to try and steal a baby. It suggests a total lack of empathy and consideration for what that would do to the parents of the stolen baby. That lack of empathy must be so total, that one could almost consider them bordering on being a sociopath. I’m not saying that is the case here, but that anyone who deliberately inflicts such emotional damage on new parents by stealing a baby, must be lacking in basic human empathy.