Would be mothers of the year
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:06 am
Two girls aged 17 and 18 admitted setting up a fake Facebook page offering free children's clothes to mums so they could snatch their babies.
One of the teenagers, aged 17, even posed as a social worker to try and abduct a toddler from her mother in her own home.
The would-be kidnappers tricked parents into sharing their contact details over Facebook so they could track down a selection of 'targets'.
The girls appeared at Derby Youth Court last week where they admitted conspiring to kidnap babies, named as S, W and U, between September 14 and 23 last year.
They were caught after the mother of Baby U, from Normanton, Derby, called the police on September 21 after one of the girls turned up at her door posing as a social worker.
The would-be kidnappers tricked parents into sharing their contact details over Facebook so they could track down a selection of 'targets'
Once inside the would-be kidnappers tricked parents into sharing their contact details over Facebook so they could track down a selection of 'targets'. asked to hold the child and when she handed her back she said she wanted to take her away for a medical check-up.
But the mother became suspicious and after the girl left she called the police.
Detectives found the girl's Facebook page which had been set up by the 18-year-old, of Evesham, Worcestershire, and the 17-year-old, of Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
A week later the pair were arrested and charged.
The court heard the girls had plotted to kidnap two other babies in Huddersfield and Wolverhampton.
Detective Sergeant Duncan Gouck, of Derbyshire Police, said: 'It was very harrowing in terms of what could have happened, considering how young the babies were and the impact on the families could have been immense.
'The team of officers worked tirelessly on it and we put everything else on hold. The defendants were arrested within a week of the report.
'We don't think the intention was to have all three babies but they were trying to select different targets.
'The conspiracy involved Facebook. They set up a fake profile which they used to contact the mothers.
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