Mothers told stolen babies had died

THREE doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said.

Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learned her baby was alive and had been sold to another woman for 15,000 pesos (€760), said Luis Genaro, the capital’s deputy attorney general.

The woman gave birth to a girl through caesarean section at the Central West Hospital in a working-class district in October 2008, Genaro said at a news conference.