The victim was talking to his father in Greece over the video chat program just days after the birth of his premature son, when he left the computer to help his new baby in the bath.
Skype remained connected and the father witnessed a nurse go through his son's belongings at the Epworth Hospital maternity ward and take something out.
New mum, Chrysa, said her father-in-law alerted them upon returning to the room to check his son's wallet as the nurse took out a $20 note. He then identified the culprit when she re-entered the ward.
"He saw a woman come into the room and she tried to open the wardrobe and was looking (around)," Chrysa told Fairfax. "Then she went to the chair — my husband's jacket was there — and she took the wallet and opened it."
A hospital spokesperson told 3AW Radio they were shocked at the brazenness of the theft and the nurse, aged in her 50s, has been dismissed from her job.
The new parents, who stayed in the hospital a month after with their premature baby, left the nurse's punishment in the hospital's hands but did not request for her to lose her job. She apologised immediately and returned the money to the couple.
"It was only $20 but it's not right from a nurse," Chrysa said. "We didn't want her to lose her job but we should report [it] because it was a private hospital and other parents could have the same situation as us if we didn't."
Source Mashable
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