Another Mother of the Year Candidate

It'll be difficult to top the Octomom for sheer weirdness, but this piece of garbage may take the silver medal when they hand out the awards for Mother of the Year.

Granted, the year is still young.

A Framingham woman who had recently given birth stole another new mother's purse from the maternity ward Saturday at MetroWest Medical Center, police said.

Jennifer Morris, 36, was arrested Sunday at 7:09 p.m. at her 38 Kendall Ave. home, a day after authorities say she stole the purse, which contained the other mother's cell phone and digital camera with all the photos of her triplet newborns.

A friend told police Morris tried to sell her the camera and cell phone to get money to buy crack, said police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany.

On Saturday, the victim, whom police identified only as a 49-year-old woman, called the station at 5:45 p.m. to report the theft.

Officers reviewed security camera footage and saw a woman, later identified as Morris, take the purse off a coat rack and leave the maternity ward.

Another camera shows her trying to use a bank card taken from the purse at an ATM in the lobby, but she was thwarted because she did not know the PIN police said.

A few minutes later, she came back to the maternity ward and threw the purse away, Shastany said.

Officers found the purse, but the victim's cell phone and digital camera were gone.

Police then questioned Morris, who recently gave birth to a baby girl.

"She said she didn't do anything," said Shastany, but after being told they saw her on camera, she changed her story. "She said, 'Yeah, I stole it. I took the camera and phone."'

Sadly, the story makes no mention of the baby this woman gave birth to. Who's taking care of the baby while she's being held in jail?