Where is baby Tavish? ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - It's one of the most bizarre unsolved cases for the Atlanta Police Department.
17 years ago this week a three week old infant was taken from the Hughes Spalding pediatric unit of Grady Hospital.
WABE's Rose Scott reports on the disappearance of Tavish Sutton.

In the early morning of March 9th, 1993...the baby was in the hospital for a routine surgical procedure.
Police reports indicate a nurse checked on the newborn around 6:45 am about 15 minutes later when she came back he was gone.
As he recalls the case, Ernie Allen says during that time baby abductions were happening around the country.
Allen says during this time, there was a rash of baby abductions were women would go into hospitals, steal identification and walk right out the hospital.

Allen is the long time President of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
He says without surveillance footage no one has ever been able to identify the kidnapper.
So, investigators were stumped as to who took the baby.
The case is still open and Allen maintains hope that someone in Atlanta knows something and previously could not help the police.

Allen says investigators are using an age progression drawing as to what Tavish could look like as a teenager.
He says it may seem like a long shot but that type of technology has helped find kids decades later. He adds the age progression method found someone abducted at one month.

At the time of his abduction Tavish was in DFACS custody.
His mother was in a mental institution.
However, two years later, she and the hospital settled out of court for 6-hundred thousand dollars.
Now, called Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, officials declined to be interviewed for this story.
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