Kidnaped Baby Girl Reunited With Parents : Crime: Azusa woman who allegedly posed as a nurse to take infant is arrested, along with her husband.

An Azusa woman who allegedly posed as a nurse in order to snatch a newborn baby girl from a Covina home Wednesday was arrested, along with her husband, at a West Covina medical office building hours after the abduction, authorities said.

The baby, 8-day-old Sara Kang, was examined at the hospital’s emergency room, Covina Police Lt. Ron McKee said, and “was in good shape and showed no signs of maltreatment.” She was quickly reunited with her parents, Paul and Leslie Kang, he said.

Kathryn Fuller, 22, and her husband, Larry Edward Fuller, 29, were booked by Covina police for investigation of kidnapping, McKee said. Police received a tip from Larry Fuller’s brother, leading them to arrest the couple, McKee said.

Fuller had called his brother, who was not identified, to tell him that his wife had just had a baby, the lieutenant said.

“Knowing that his brother’s wife was not pregnant, Fuller’s brother called police, who went to the office building, where the woman and her husband were arrested at about 6:45 p.m.,” McKee said.

He said investigators had not determined why the couple had gone to the building, which is next to Queen of the Valley Medical Center, where the child was born.

“The woman had had a miscarriage about six months ago,” McKee said of Kathryn Fuller. “She decided to snatch a kid when she was due. She is a very large woman, and it was very easy for her to pretend she was pregnant.”

Covina police officers had combed the area for the abductor and child throughout the day, while at the same time seeking witnesses to the kidnaping.

Leslie Kang, 22, told police that she was in the kitchen of her apartment in the 1300 block of San Bernardino Road when the woman, posing as a nurse, disappeared with her baby.

Police said the woman had also visited the Kang apartment Monday. She had identified herself as Susan White and told Kang that she was a nurse sent by Queen of the Valley Medical Center to check on Kang and her baby.

Kay Turner, a nursing supervisor at Queen of the Valley, said the hospital contracts with an outside agency to send nurses to the homes of newborn babies when physicians deem it necessary.

“She took our temperatures and blood pressure,” Kang said Wednesday, before her baby had been found. Sitting on a sofa next to her husband, also 22, she said the woman “was very friendly. She helped a lot and answered a lot of my questions.”

The woman arrived at the apartment about 10 a.m. Wednesday. After about 45 minutes, Leslie Kang said, the woman told her she was going to try for a job promotion and asked Kang to write a letter of recommendation.

“I sat down (at the kitchen table) to write the letter,” the mother said through tears. “She said she forgot the blood pressure kit and said she was going outside to her car to get it. A minute or two later, I went to check on the baby and she was gone. They were both gone.”

Paul Kang said he had thought the woman “was someone who could help us. She seemed real nice.”

After being reunited with their baby at 7:30 p.m., the Kangs celebrated with friends and relatives at their apartment.

“I’m glad it’s over,” Paul Kang said while watching television reports of the kidnaping and their reunion with Sara. “I’m just glad it’s over.”

His wife was exhausted, but smiling.

“It’s been a long and tiring day,” she said, adding, “I just want to know why that woman took my baby.”

Times staff writer Nieson Himmel contributed to this story.