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Elsje Pretorius and daughter Nadine experienced a terrible kidnapping case DAVID WHITE/ FAIRFAX NZ
The August 14 report quoted stuff news. In the near future, newborns and mothers in New Zealand may be required to wear trackers to prevent child kidnapping from happening again.
Elsje Pretorius, a New Zealand mother who was a victim of the kidnapping incident, welcomed this. A year ago, her five-day-old daughter Nadine was kidnapped. “You don’t have much to do to prevent this from happening again,” Pretorius said.
In response to the kidnapping case, the Manakau health authority stated that it is investigating whether “safety and tracking equipment” should be installed for women and newborns.
This month, the market posted news that this type of tracker “can provide a high degree of security for children being kidnapped, mother-infant mismatches, etc.”, and can “continuously track” the wearer’s movements, whether there are vital signs, and detect Any “potentially dangerous situation”. It can also help newborns to pair with their mothers to prevent the mistake of holding the wrong baby.
Greg Simpson, director of the District Medical and Health Administration, said that this type of technology cannot track the movements of mothers and babies at all times, but can send signals of abnormal behavior (such as being kidnapped) to the “right people.” If the child is separated from the mother at a strange point in the day, the device will sound an alarm. For another example, if a newborn baby passes through multiple locations in the hospital without his mother, or is even taken out of the hospital, this device will also send an alert to security personnel. “The basic point is that the mother and child are connected to the device through the same tag… If they are separated, we will know.” Simpson said.
Currently, similar technologies on the market have been considered for use in patients with mental illness. This technology allows mental patients to move around freely, but when they try to leave the hospital, they will sound an alarm, “There are no troublesome locks and keys, only divided into different areas.”
Simpson said that for women and babieselectronic labelThis is the first time in New Zealand. If it is proven effective, it will be promoted nationwide.
Philip Moore, the medical director of the Hawke’s Bay Medical and Health Administration in charge of women, children and adolescents, said that since the Nadine kidnapping case, the hospital has strengthened relevant protection work and replaced its safety monitoring heads. The client, Pretorius, said that after the kidnapping of his daughter Nadine, the application of new technology has indeed greatly improved the safety of the hospital. “She returned to me within 8 hours (after being abducted).”
At that time, a kidnapper took advantage of Pretorius’s bathing time and took the 5-day-old baby girl Nadine from the ward. Fortunately, the police quickly retrieved the baby girl. The 27-year-old kidnapper Loni Marsh was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March this year.
GPS-based tracking devices-from shoes to pendants-have been widely used in New Zealand, and police and family members can quickly find lost children, elderly people or other mentally ill patients. In the United States, thousands of newborns have been put on alarm ankle sleeves. As long as the child leaves any door of the hospital or the ankle sleeve is removed, it will call the police.
In New Zealand, the abandonment of newborn babies is very rare, and there have been 7 cases in the past 25 years. Simpson believes that although such cases do not always occur, even one is not rare.
“This is not a simple question, it is a family disaster.” He said.
Next month is the first birthday of the kidnapped girl Nadine, and her mother still has lingering fears about this terrible experience.
“I feel I gave birth to her twice, and she blessed us twice.” Pretorius said.
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