About midnight Wednesday, the baby was suffering from medical problems. An ambulance took her and Crump to the emergency room of Primary Children's Medical Center. The two arrived at the hospital about 1 a.m., according to hospital spokeswoman Laura Winder.

The infant was treated like any other walk-in patient. Her medical condition was not related to her mother's previous substance-abuse problems, police said.

"It was a common childhood concern," Winder said.

The infant was discharged a little before 3:30 a.m. At that point, Salazar said, Crump was reportedly trying to call several people for a ride.

Investigators believe she went to the Taylorsville residence where she lived before she entered the treatment facility. She was seen there about 5:30 a.m. She did not return to the treatment facility and had not been seen since, Salazar said.

Salazar said there was no way for the hospital to know that Crump was only allowed to have the baby under supervised conditions.

"Primary was not aware of custodial situation," he said. "When Primary discharged the baby, they had no clue of the custody issue."

"To our staff, it was just a routine visit like a dozen others," added Winder. "We didn't have any information that there was anything else going on that we should be aware of."

Whether Crump should have been supervised when she went to the hospital was something detectives were looking into Friday, said Salazar. Interviews are planned at the treatment facility.

In addition to Crump's drug use while pregnant, police were concerned because the woman's parental rights to four other children had been terminated when she lived in Oklahoma, Salazar said. Three of her other children were removed in 2004, and her parental rights for her fourth child were terminated in Oklahoma in June of this year when the child fell out of a second-story window and suffered head trauma, according to Midvale police.

Salazar said the other children were put into protective custody based on allegations of drug use, abuse, neglect and reckless endangerment.

Those children are still in Oklahoma. Police believe Crump came to Utah because of a boyfriend, who is the father of the infant. He is believed to be working in either Oklahoma or Nebraska, Salazar said.

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