SANFORD - A judge today sent to prison for 30 years the woman who kidnapped a one-day-old baby from the maternity ward of a Sanford hospital last year.Jennifer Latham, 40 of Sanford, pleaded guilty in February, the day testimony was to begin at her trial.She did not explain her actions but today, in a soft voice, apologized to Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson, saying she suffers from depression and anxiety and needs help.Defense psychiatrist Wade Myers, though, did tell the judge what was going on in Latham's mind the day the baby was abducted, March, 28, 2008.
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She was obsessed with being a mother and was desperate for a baby, he said. She also was depressed, unhappy that she had recently lost an attempt to win custody of her two school-aged children.She had first lost custody to her ex-husband in 2003, Myers said, and that left an enormous hole in her life. more
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