{"id":414454,"date":"2025-11-30T05:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:52:17","slug":"b-c-woman-alleged-to-have-handled-babies-at-hospital-has-past-animal-cruelty-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/414454\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. woman alleged to have handled babies at hospital has past animal cruelty conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A B.C. woman arrested and charged after allegedly giving three babies \u201cskin-to-skin\u201d contact in a Surrey hospital, has a previous animal cruelty conviction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, 35, is accused of three counts of assault and remains in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a woman went into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at <a title=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/surrey-memorial-hospital\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/surrey-memorial-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\"><strong>Surrey Memorial Hospital<\/strong><\/a>, at 6:55 a.m. on Oct. 28 where she allegedly removed her shirt and held three infants, giving them skin-to-skin contact.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>None of the infants was injured, police said, but hospital security removed the woman from the property.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Tige Pollock of the Surrey Police Service the incident is being treated as an assault because \u00a0\u201cthe application of force to any person without their consent is an assault. So the act of picking up the babies would, in effect, be an assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In November 2016, Hirtreiter was sentenced to two years probation for causing an animal to continue to be in distress in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1839226\/ryder-black-lab-who-suffered-horrific-animal-abuse-recovering-slowly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal attack on a black Labrador on Valentine\u2019s Day 2015 in Surrey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11546507\/bc-tanker-ban-explainer-pipeline-deal-alberta\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cpt11201317-2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhat is the B.C. oil tanker ban, and could it change under pipeline deal?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11548064\/uk-travel-rules-canada-eta\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764481937_91_20230718130728-64b6cc6ea569cf9b817dd9e7jpeg-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tU.K. to start enforcing new travel permit rules for Canadian visitors\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time, the family of Ryder, a three-year-old black Lab, told Global News their dog ran off from their new home in the Chimney Heights neighbourhood in northeast Newton on Feb. 14, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Westaway said they couldn\u2019t find Ryder that night, but he was discovered the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey RCMP told Westaway that Ryder had been stabbed with scissors in the face and eye and beaten with a blunt object. There were also pieces of jewellery and other items put in his body.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder survived but Westaway said the family\u2019s dog had a long road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A B.C. woman arrested and charged after allegedly giving three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24144,194534,194535,2147,4219,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-414454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-animal-cruelty","9":"tag-animal-cruelty-charges","10":"tag-bc-womens-hospital-arrest","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115637096109448323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}