ATLANTA, June 28 -- A second suspect faced charges Friday in connection with the kidnapping of a 2-day-old boy from an Atlanta hospital who later was returned unharmed. Police identified the suspect, who was arrested Thursday, as LaShaudra Williams, 17. A judge will decide next week if Anna Sykes, the 15-year-old girl who reportedly confessed to the Monday abduction and was charged earlier in the week, will stand trial as an adult. Investigators were continuing to explore how and why the infant was abducted from the Grady Memorial Hospital nusery area as he recuperated from circumcision. Police also want to know who else may have been involved. 'Evidence continues to develop in this case. More arrests are expected. This case isn't over yet,' said Atlanta police Maj. Mickey Lloyd. Sykes was arrested Monday after her mother called police to report that her daughter had found a baby. When police interviewed Sykes, they discounted her story and charged her with kidnapping. Sykes confessed to the abduction and helped investigators draw a diagram of the hospital nursery area that showed how she and a friend kidnapped the baby, Atlanta police Detective Michael Menzel testified at the teen's juvenile court hearing Thursday. Sykes escaped from custody Monday evening when two officers drove her to an apartment where an accomplice supposedly lived. 'She entered the apartment through the front door and ran out the back door with another person,' Menzel testified. The teen was recaptured the next day. Sykes' attorney, W. Mark Hill, said his client told him she was forced to kidnap the infant by a man who wanted to sell him.
The teen claimed that it was actually Williams who snatched the boy from the crib after they were both driven, at gunpoint, to the hospital by a man she identified as Xavier Terrell Anderson. A defense request that Sykes be released to her mother's custody was denied based on her previous juvenile record. 'Her momma's had all these problems with this child in the past, and she's gonna watch her now? That makes no sense to me,' said Judge George Geiger. Hospital officials who had declined to comment on how the baby was kidnapped now say alarms sounded when he was abducted. They said hopital security procedures are under review and, if necessary, will be beefed up.