Baby thief gets 3 years, 4 months at hard labour
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Peta-Gay Ffrench, the woman who pleaded guilty to stealing a day-old baby from Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston on January 9, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison, at hard labour.
Her sentence was handed down in the Supreme Court today.
Ffrench, who pleaded guilty to child stealing on July 18, 2019, was arrested on February 5, when she turned up at the Registrar General’s Department in Twickenham Park, St Catherine, attempting to register a baby.
A subsequent DNA test confirmed on February 7, that the baby was stolen from Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, and belonged to Sinclair Hutton and his common-law wife Suzzett Whyte.
Prior to the matter being transferred to the Supreme Court, it was said in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on April 25 that Ffrench lurked at the hospital for almost a month before stealing the child.
— Racquel Porter
