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Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities have arrested three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist accused of stealing newborns at a private hospital and selling them, the Mexico City attorney general's office says.
A married couple and a woman also were arrested on charges that they bought two newborn girls and registered them as their own offspring, said Luis Genaro Vasquez Rodriguez, an official with the attorney general's office.
The doctors and hospital personnel would tell parents from whom the children were stolen that their babies had died, authorities said Wednesday.
One of the abducted babies, Diana Fernanda Castillo, has been reunited with her biological mother. Authorities who found the baby and confirmed her identity through genetic tests handed her over to her mother, Vanesa Edith Castillo Guzmán, on Thursday.
Authorities said they arrested Drs. Victor Manuel Mancera Gonzalez, 74; Jorge Adalberto Guerrero Bustos, 55; and Alfredo Ortiz Rosas, 52. Nurse Maria Guadalupe Castro Morales, 58, and receptionist Leonel Rodriguez Mondragon also were arrested, the attorney general's office said in a statement posted on its Web site.
All the suspects were charged with trafficking in minors, using false documents and organized crime.
Other suspects arrested were married couple Antonio Merino Hernandez, 46, and Maria de la Luz Ruiz Padilla, 39, as well as psychologist Cinthia Nayeli Perez Ortiz, 37, officials said. In both cases, authorities said, they were sold babies born in Mexico City's Hospital Central de Oriente.
According to the Mexico City attorney general's office:
Castillo told officials that her daughter was born at 5:11 p.m. October 25, 2008. She never saw her but heard her cry. The mother repeatedly asked Ortiz Rosas to let her see her daughter, but he told her it would be later, once she recovered from the anesthesia and Caesarean section surgery she had undergone.
Later, Mancera Gonzalez told Castillo that her baby had been taken to the "Moctezuma" Infants Hospital. The next day, Ortiz told her, "Your daughter died. There was nothing that could be done for her. She was born with insufficient respiratory ability. I tried to save her, but she died." He also told her the body had been cremated.
Castillo asked the doctor for the baby's ashes or at least a death certificate October 27, and he replied: "I already told you. She died. I took her to be incinerated. There's nothing more to talk about or do. The documents are on the way."
She later received an e-mail from the clinic owner's son in which he told her that her daughter was alive. "Dr. Ortiz placed her with a family and, of course, received a lot of dough," the e-mail said.
The man who sent the e-mail and other witnesses were interviewed, and all said the baby was sold to a couple who lived in the San Vicente municipality in Mexico state.