A British teenage girl who snatched a two-day-old baby from a maternity hospital has escaped a jail sentence.
Kelly Louise Oldnall (18) had pleaded guilty to abducting Elizabeth Rice from her cot as the baby lay next to her twin sister at Wordsley Hospital's maternity ward in Stourbridge, England, in May.
The babies' mother was asleep when the child disappeared.
Detectives found Elizabeth at Oldnall's house in the nearby Dudley area, six-and-a-half hours after she was taken following a tip-off.
In her defence, the court had been told Oldnall had lost a baby herself.
Oldnall was today given a three-year community rehabilitation order. She will have to live at a bail hostel away from the area, abide by a curfew and will be regularly tested for drugs and alcohol.
The Rice family released a statement expressing their unhappiness with security at the hospital, and said they feared a similar incident could happen again.
Wordsley Hospital had acknowledged its security system had failed but said new controls had since been introduced.