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Mychael Darthard-Dawodu

LUBBOCK — Authorities continued late Saturday to look for a woman who posed as a medical worker to kidnap a 3-day-old infant from a hospital in the middle of the night, police said.

Mychael Darthard-Dawodu was last seen at 1:20 a.m. Saturday at Covenant Lakeside Hospital when a woman wearing blue and flower print hospital scrubs and gray, puffy jacket with a hood took her and fled in a red pickup truck, police said.

The woman may have had a male accomplice, police said.

Hospital surveillance video showed the woman with the hood pulled around her head and holding a purse as she walked out of the building through the lobby. There was no attendant at the front desk.

Calls about the abduction came in from across the region and the country throughout Saturday, Lubbock police Lt. Scott Hudgens said.

So far, "nothing's working out for us," he said. "There's no telling where they went."

The baby was jaundiced but Hudgens did not have any other information on her medical condition. Jaundice is a common complication in newborns that causes a yellowing of the skin because of a buildup of pigment in the blood.

The parents, Caisha Darthard and Michael A. Dawodu, and other family members declined to comment Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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Police released this sketch of the suspect.

"At this point we don't have any reason to believe that the family knew the suspect," Hudgens said.

The abductor went into the mother's room several times before the baby was taken, said Gwen Stafford, senior vice president of Covenant Health System. The woman told the mother the baby needed tests, Stafford said.

"I think there was more than one attempt," Stafford said. "I'm trying to verify if it was two or three times."

Hudgens said the mother alerted someone that her baby was gone within about 15 minutes.

At a news conference later, Stafford said all hospital employees wear name badges but it was "unclear" whether the kidnapper was wearing one.

"I don't think that our staff had ever seen her," she said.

The newborn was wearing a monitoring device but it was not clear if it included a global positioning system beacon.

"We have a very good and sophisticated security" system, she added.

Later she declined to comment on what sort of system is used with newborns.

"I don't want to compromise the security system," Stafford said. "If this system did fail then there was something that didn't work as we wanted it to such that it was compromised."

The mother is "distraught, and like us, praying for the safe return of her little girl," she said.

Hudgens implored the woman and her possible accomplice to drop the baby off some place safe so that she could get treatment for her jaundice.

"That's our main concern right now, is the safety of this child," he said.

The FBI and county authorities were looking for a red Dodge pickup with tinted windows. An Amber Alert was issued early in the day in Texas and New Mexico authorities extended it later in the day.

Police described the alleged abductor as a black woman with a light complexion and short, dark hair. She was believed to be in her early 20s.

The abduction was the second in Lubbock in less than a year. In June a woman in medical scrubs began visiting a mother's room at a different hospital, asking questions about the days-old baby and then offering to drop by their home with a swing and some baby clothes, the mother told police then.

The woman visited the mother's home a few days later and fled with the newborn while the mother was momentarily distracted with her 2-year-old son.

A tip led to the woman's whereabouts the next day and she took police to an apartment complex carport where she had left the 5-day-old girl in a car seat in 100-plus degree weather. The baby was treated at a hospital and released.