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| Former Prison Officer Charged With Kidnapping Texas Infant |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/26/2002 |
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A former prison officer who convinced her family that she had given birth has been accused of abducting infant Nancy Crystal Chavez from her family's minivan outside a Wal-Mart when her mother turned around to stow a shopping cart. Paula Roach, 24, was charged with aggravated kidnapping and jailed on $200,000 bond. Authorities in Quanah, about 125 miles north of Abilene, got a tip from employees at a nursing home where Roach had gone to show off the infant. On August 14, officers stopped a car carrying Roach, her mother and the baby. Roach was taken into custody and Nancy was returned to her family hours later. Roach worked as a corrections officer at a prison in Abilene for about 20 months before she resigned in September 2000, warden James Duke said. Police said Roach recently worked at an Abilene convenience store and had lived in Quanah, where she apparently planned to stay and raise the baby. Texas Ranger David Hullum said Roach told officers she hadn't planned the abduction. ''When we told her it wasn't her baby, her response was, `Where's my baby?''' Hullum said. ''She was having a hard time letting the baby go.'' Roach's brother, Terry Roach, said the baby had been well-cared for. ''I thought it was my niece,'' he said. He said the family learned later that his sister had a miscarriage in December. |
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