{"id":320273,"date":"2025-12-02T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320273\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:00:18","slug":"owner-of-tortured-dog-speaks-out-about-woman-charged-in-surrey-nicu-incident-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320273\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of tortured dog speaks out about woman charged in Surrey NICU incident &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: Some of the details in this story are disturbing. Discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808739_201_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>B.C.\u2019s Health Minister confirmed a police investigation is underway after a woman entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/nicu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NICU<\/a> at Surrey Memorial Hospital and had skin-to-skin contact with three babies.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, 35, is <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11550567\/bc-woman-assault-charge-prior-convinction-animal-cruelty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">facing three counts of assault<\/a> and appeared in court on Monday for a bail hearing, but the matter was put over to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Josie Osborne also confirmed that Fraser Health is investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important that anything that can be learned from an incident like that is used to adapt policies and something I know that Fraser Health takes incredibly seriously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll let that police investigation, of course, unfold and see where that goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a woman went into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at <a title=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/surrey-memorial-hospital\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/surrey-memorial-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Surrey Memorial Hospital<\/a>, at 6:55 a.m. on Oct. 28 where she allegedly removed her shirt and held three infants, giving them skin-to-skin contact.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808740_130_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>None of the infants was injured, police said, but hospital security removed the woman from the property.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Suspect sought in distubing incident at Surrey Memorial Hospital'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WEB_6P_SURREY_MEMORIAL_NICU_SUSPECT.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:49<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSuspect sought in distubing incident at Surrey Memorial Hospital\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11554359\/algoma-steel-layoffs\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764669617_172_CP174473077.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAlgoma Steel to lay off 1,000 workers over \u2018unprecedented tariffs\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11551691\/mark-carney-cabinet-shuffle-steven-guilbeault\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5406883081a517179a3a2c7306db2a1fa98572c977bfe064a3c4fb72e2e09e15.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCarney shuffles cabinet, names new ministers to replace Guilbeault\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2016, Hirtreiter was sentenced to two years probation for causing an animal to continue to be in distress in connection with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1839226\/ryder-black-lab-who-suffered-horrific-animal-abuse-recovering-slowly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">brutal attack on a black Labrador on Valentine\u2019s Day 2015 in Surrey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surrey RCMP said that Ryder had been stabbed with scissors in the face and eye and beaten with a blunt object. There were also pieces of jewelry and other items put in his body.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ryder did survive the attack.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, Ryder is still alive and Global News spoke with owner Kassandra Allard.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was \u201chorrified\u201d to hear about what happened in the Surrey NICU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose parents are very lucky,\u201d she said. \u201cThat should never have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allard added that the NICU incident made her feel sick to her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me sick knowing what she\u2019s already done to my own dog and what she could have possibly have done to those babies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size WARNING: Some of the details in this story are disturbing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,44,69038,142283],"class_list":{"0":"post-320273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nicu","13":"tag-surrey-memorial-hospital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}