A woman has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a two-day-old baby from a south Auckland hospital.
Neha Narayan, 25, tried to take the infant from Middlemore Hospital on January 4.
She entered a guilty plea to a single charge of kidnapping when she appeared before Justice Peter Woodhouse in the High Court at Auckland today.
Police have previously said Narayan tried to take the newborn while her partner was waiting outside in a car. She was stopped by the baby's parents and a nurse.
Narayan's former lawyer Heeni Phillips told APNZ in January that Narayan had been pregnant to her partner of six years but lost the baby last year and has been "suffering tragically and psychologically".
She was holding the baby at Middlemore for reasons connected to "her previous predicament" but there had been a misunderstanding, Ms Phillips said.
"She didn't have any intention of running out with the child."
Justice Woodhouse convicted Narayan and gave her a warning under the three strikes legislation.
He ordered a pre-sentence report, which was to include details of the treatment she would require.
Narayan was remanded on bail until her sentencing next month.
She and her lawyer, Ron Mansfield, declined to comment outside court.
