In just over a week, thousands of members of a Mooresville, North Carolina, Facebook group have shared a July 10 post that implores neighbors to help track down a woman who supposedly kidnapped a newborn baby from a local hospital.
In the photo accompanying the post, a woman in white hospital scrubs holds a small child in her arms. She seems to be glancing nervously to her right.
"This woman impersonated herself as a nurse and stole a 2day old baby boy from a local hospital in Mooresville," reads the post, which more than 3,000 Facebook users shared. "She was caught on camera and is on the loose and if anyone sees her please report this to your nearest police station and share this post so we help the 27year old first-time mother in reuniting with her son (sic)!"
Four days later, similarly concerned Facebook users were sharing the same image in a near-identical post, this time claiming the woman had fled a hospital in Villisca, Iowa, thousands of miles away.
Similar posts have been shared in dozens of community Facebook groups in the U.S. and other countries. All of these posts are identical except for the name of the city where the woman supposedly snatched the child.
They're hoaxes.
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