The Nation - News from Nov. 9, 1988

The minister for a couple whose baby was stolen from a Little Rock, Ark., hospital by a phony nurse made a live televised appeal for the abductor to leave the frail infant in a safe place and call him. Ten-day-old Christopher Michael Jones, who was born six weeks premature, was taken from his mother’s arms the night of Nov. 1 at Doctors Hospital. Doctors have said the baby could die if he does not get proper medical attention. “Please return this baby to his parents, Willie and Annette Jones. Place the child in a warm and safe place, and then call me immediately,” said the Rev. Dennis Edwards, pastor of St. John Baptist Church in Little Rock.