MADINA: The woman suspected of kidnapping baby Anas has been moved to the Women's General Prison, along with two of her sisters. Madina Police are holding her husband and two brothers pending investigations by the Bureau of Investigations and Prosecution, officials said. Brig. Gen. Muhsin Al-Raddadi, spokesman of Madina Region Police, said his colleagues have completed all their procedures related to the case and the BIP is investigating all those involved in the incident. The baby was taken from a Madina hospital on Dec. 6 and returned four days later, after relatives of the suspected kidnapper saw reports about the incidents, realized that Anas had been kidnapped and saw to it that he was returned. A source said a number of steps and procedures have been completed to move forward with the matter. “The police have investigated the suspected female kidnapper and the rest of the detained people, registered their testimonies, taken their fingerprints, completed all procedures and forwarded the case file to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution, in line with the procedures followed according to the regulations,” the source said. Barring the family of the suspected kidnapper from visiting her or any of those being detained is a decision that investigators have the authority to make, Gen. Al-Raddadi said. He stressed that if the authorities see that it is in the interest of the investigations to prevent visits to those involved or suspected of involvement in any crime, they have the right to do so until investigations are completed. Gen. Al-Raddadi said the boy's family would not be summoned for further conversations. “The family of the infant no longer has any relation with the matter after dropping their private right, but the matter required summoning them to take their testimonies, as the investigation authorities have the right to do,” he said. Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned that security authorities are holding two cars owned by the suspected kidnapper's family – one of which they believe was used to transport the baby boy to a place near a park in western Madina just after the incident and another car owned by the suspected kidnapper's brother they believe was used to specifying the place to leave the boy. Investigators are also looking into the contents of a computer they found in the possession of the suspected female kidnapper's family in an effort to determine their connection with the kidnapping, a source said. Only the suspected kidnapper has been charged, based on her confessions, and it has not been determined if the others will face charges, the source added. Investigations by the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution are focusing on the connections between the suspected kidnapper and the others who are being detained, the source said. The suspected kidnapper's eldest brother, who acknowledged that his sister committed a crime, said their parents are struggling with a bad psychological state of mind due to the detention of five of their family members. “We are thinking seriously about hiring a lawyer,” he told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. “We are trying to get the release on bail of those being detained.” The suspected kidnapper's brother said the baby was fed from milk tins and a feeding bottle and he confirmed that Anas was never breastfed throughout the period he was with them. The man did not answer questions about how his family believed their sister's story that she delivered the baby boy she brought home, without her guardian having signed his consent to conduct the baby's delivery and her having done so without any family members accompanying her. They believed her despite the fact that baby Anas spent four nights in the house of their sister – a Saudi national of Pakistani origin – after officials have said she kidnapped him on Dec. 6 from a Madina hospital, 20 hours after he was born, when his mother and grandmother were asleep. A relative of the suspected kidnapper has said she was pregnant and very close to her delivery date, which was near the date Anas was taken, when she suffered a miscarriage.
