SANFORD, Fla. -- A divorced mother of two accused of smuggling a 1-day-old baby out of a busy Central Florida hospital supposedly told her family nine months ago that she was pregnant, despite having her tubes tied, Local 6 reported Saturday.

Jennifer Latham, 39, of Sanford, entered a secure hospital unit at Central Florida Regional Hospital located at 1401 W. Seminole Blvd. in Sanford Friday and managed to smuggle the child out in a tote bag, according to investigators.

"We have her on video changing into hospital scrubs and she was able to go in posing as a hospital employee," Sanford Police Chief Brian Tooley said.

Latham's sister Penny Barnard told Local 6's Todd Jurkowski that she was crushed by the bizarre allegations.

"I guess she just lost it because she wasn't pregnant," Barnard said.

Investigators said they've learned that Latham smuggled the newborn out in a tote bag and then fled in her blue Chevrolet Blazer.

A short time later, a Lake Mary police officer noticed Latham's SUV on Interstate 4 and stopped her.

Barnard said a car seat videotaped as the child was being taken out of her SUV by police was one of the baby supplies they purchased leading up to last week's bogus due date, Local 6 reported.

"I would have never in a million, million years thought this," Barnard said. "I really don't know what she thought. I see how she was going to come home and say, 'Oh, here's my baby.'"

Latham, who graduated from Seminole High School, is a mother of two children, 11 and 13, Local 6 reported.

Police: Abduction Random

Meanwhile, investigators continued to believe that the abduction was apparently a "rare" random act.

Police said Latham initially tried to take another child in the hospital Friday but was confronted by the child's parents. She then snatched the 1-day-old boy and fled, police said.

"It does appear that it could be a stranger abduction, which is very, very rare," said Darrel Presley, deputy chief of the Sanford Police Department near Orlando.

Alarms Sounded At Hospital

Officials at Central Florida Regional Hospital initially alerted police of the abduction around 1:45 p.m. after hospital alarms indicated the child had been removed from the newborn unit, said Presley.

Hospital spokesman Craig Bair said the child was wearing a device that set off an alarm when the infant was taken outside the secure unit.

The hospital was immediately locked down as officials searched the grounds, but the woman was apparently able to slip by security. "We believe at this point she had a large blue tote bag that she may have actually placed the child inside," Presley said. "And she just apparently walked out."

Presley said hospital staff acted appropriately and quickly.

"But in just those few minutes that it takes to gather the information and disseminate it, she was able to walk from the maternity ward through the exit and then depart the hospital," he said.

Authorities initially believed they were looking for two women because the suspect wore street clothes into the hospital, then changed into a scrub-like shirt in an apparent attempt to blend in, Presley said.

"The child is OK and back in custody with his parents," Tooley said. "It is a pretty good day in the city of Sanford."

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