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There are instances of people stealing babies out of maternity wards. Sometimes this people just want to steal the baby just to raise it as their own. They want a child, and the easiest way seems to be stealing someone else's for whatever reason (e.g. maybe they are infertile).

Hi from Denmark here - the neigbour country to sweden. Where we do the excact same thing... Anyway there was a danish woman who moved to USA once and left her kid outside a cafe while she was inside. I think she was arrested or something. It made a great deal of fuss in Denmark, since no one steals kids here (of course thats an understatement - probaly it has happend)

I believe one of the common fears is pedophilia.