A 26-year-old woman will appear in court this morning charged with kidnapping after a baby was taken from South Auckland's Middlemore Hospital last night, Radio New Zealand reports.
The five-day-old girl has been reunited with her parents after the police found her at a Manurewa property at 4am this morning.
Reports said the baby girl was taken not long after visiting hours finished at 8pm last night when a woman claiming to be pregnant was allowed into a ward with a man.
It is thought the couple were identified by police from CCTV footage. Earlier this morning Counties Manukau Police said two people were helping with inquiries.
It is the second time a baby has been taken from Middlemore's wards. In 2012, Naya Narayan abducted a newborn but was stopped in the hospital's carpark by nurses.
