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| Teenage girls detained over baby kidnap plot | Teenage girls detained over baby kidnap plot |
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| Two teenage girls - including one who had been faking a pregnancy - have been detained for conspiring to kidnap three babies. | Two teenage girls - including one who had been faking a pregnancy - have been detained for conspiring to kidnap three babies. |
| Holly Kelland, 17 at the time, contacted new mothers through a bogus Facebook profile and offered free baby clothes to get their addresses. | Holly Kelland, 17 at the time, contacted new mothers through a bogus Facebook profile and offered free baby clothes to get their addresses. |
| Her friend Cody Farrar, also 17, posed as a social worker and asked a young mother in Derby to hand over her baby. | Her friend Cody Farrar, also 17, posed as a social worker and asked a young mother in Derby to hand over her baby. |
| Both have been given 12-month detention and training orders. | Both have been given 12-month detention and training orders. |
| Derbyshire Police believe Kelland, now 18, intended to pass the baby off as her own. | |
| Det Sgt Duncan Gouck said: "She had obviously created a story around her pregnancy and that story was maintained over a period of time to family and friends. | |
| "I can only assume the offences were committed in order for that false reality to continue into the future." |