Check out our official website: http://us.tomonews.net/ Check out our Android app: http://goo.gl/PtT6VD Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---------------- A group of four young Quebec residents helped rescue a newborn baby after receiving information on Facebook about the missing child after it was kidnapped Monday from a hospital maternity ward in Montreal, Canada by a woman dressed as a nurse. Quebec police issued an amber alert after the day-old baby girl was taken at around 7 p.m. from Ville-Marie hospital in Trois-Rivieres when a woman entered the ward where mother Melissa McMahon was staying under the pretext of weighing the baby. The mother started worrying because the nurse did not leave through the usual door. Within minutes, she realized that her child had been abducted and police were called. The alert, which included a security-camera photo of the suspect and a description of her car, a red Toyota Yaris with a "Bébé à bord" (Baby on Board) sign on the rear window, was spread across mainstream and social media. The group of four teens - Melizanne Bergeron, her twin sister Sharelle Bergeron, and friends Marc-Andre Coté and Charlène Plante came across the kidnapping post on Facebook after it was posted by the missing baby's father Simon Boisclair. Charlene immediately recognized the woman as her former neighbor. The teens then spotted the vehicle described in the amber alert parked outside the woman's house and contacted the police. Police arrested the 21-year-old suspect at her home and found the baby safe just three hours after the abduction. The young sleuths were asked to accompany the police to the hospital, where the baby's parents were anxiously waiting. The authorities said: "It was really a story of the social media machine getting into working order, because after the amber alert was issued it was just passed around everywhere." The mother of the baby also wrote on a Facebook that it was social media that helped save the baby. ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­---------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Check out our Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextmedia.gan Check out our iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/tomonews/id633875353 For news that's fun and never boring, visit our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS Subscribe to stay updated on all the top stories: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-WqkTyKK1_70U4bb4k4lQ?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus

• published: 28 May 2014
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