The same woman from the nearby village also bought other newborns from families here.
Amulets contain the names of angels to protect newborns from baby-snatching demons.
Nebraska was the last state to enact a safe-haven law, intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned.
There are documented cases of mare mules stealing newborns from their mothers, and in some instances even producing milk.
The original law, enacted earlier this year, was intended to protect newborns from being abandoned or killed by panicked young mothers.
Today, two dozen health clinics give mothers-to-be H.I.V. counseling, tests and medicine to protect their newborns from catching the virus.
Vladimir Potelov, of the Polar Institute of Fish and Oceanography in Arkhangelsk, said strong winds had prevented newborns from migrating to better feeding in the Barents Sea.
Under hospital policy, no one can remove newborns from the maternity unit without being discharged or without permission from a medical authority, maternity ward employees testified Monday.
Mr. Taub said no one was allowed to remove newborns from the maternity unit without permission from a medical authority or a discharge order.
Parents of newborns from Kittery to Caribou will receive applications to open a tax-free college savings account with the money before leaving the hospital, officials at the Harold Alfond Foundation said Tuesday.
It effectively protects newborns from meningeal TB but fails to prevent adult pulmonary TB.
