Mexico docs busted in baby theft scam

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Mexican prosecutors say three suspects, including three doctors, were arrested for allegedly abducting and selling newborn babies from a Mexico City hospital.

The attorney general's office said the alleged scheme operated out of a private hospital where the suspects allegedly told parents their infants had died and then turned the babies over to buyers who registered them as their own.

A married couple and a woman were also arrested for allegedly purchasing two baby girls, one of whom has been reunited with her real mom, CNN reported Saturday.

Victims told investigators they were told their newborns had died at birth at Hospital Central de Oriente and had been immediately cremated, CNN said. One mother said her physician refused to produce a death certificate or even the ashes of her supposedly dead child.