A Bossier City woman faces attempted kidnapping charges after telling her estranged boyfriend an infant at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge was their child. BRPD spokesperson Darren Ahmed said 21-year-old Dinesty Selmon made multiple visits to case the hospital and even fooled security into giving her an access badge.
“We could have saved a child from being kidnapped that could have possibly been some type of lifetime story. This was tough, this is, something that you see in movies,” said Ahmed.
Ahmed said Selmon told her boyfriend she gave birth in Alexandria and that their premature child was being treated in Baton Rouge. Investigators say she preyed on a child that had the least visitors and even gave it a fake name.
“So, this child who’s in this ICU alone, she decides to fabricate a completely fictitious lifestyle about this being her baby,” said Ahmed.
After the boyfriend visited the child, he became suspicious because the names didn’t match what was listed in the room, so he told a friend who was a nurse about it who then alerted the charge nurse at the hospital.
The charge nurse then alerted security who then contacted police. Then when the boyfriend came to visit the infant with Selmon and his family they were denied entry. Two weeks later Selmon was arrested in Shreveport.
Ahmed said the child was never taken from the room by Selmon over the course of her multiple visits. As for her intentions…
“You never know what’s in the mind of a person who has an underlying motive but given the course of the investigation and looking at some of the key factors that unwind during the whole deal, this could have possibly been a kidnapping,” said Ahmed.
Selmon was extradited and booked Tuesday into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. She also faces seven counts of unauthorized entry of a business. The investigation is ongoing.
