(Des Moines, Iowa/KCCI) – A total stranger walked into the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at MercyOne medical center in Des Moines and bottle-fed a baby that wasn’t his. KCCI reports Des Moines Police are trying to identify the man seen on surveillance footage while he was in the hospital. The station says according to police, the man slipped by a nurse, bottle-fed a baby in the NICU and then left the hospital. Des Moines police say the unidentified man was trespassing, but what they don’t know is why the man did this.

Thomas Slater, a lawyer in West Des Moines who deals with medical malpractice cases says the hospital has a duty of care to the baby in the NICU. He said an unidentified person claiming to be a parent should not have been allowed in. Slater adds that the baby being fed and other babies in the NICU were put in danger when the man entered the unit.

MercyOne sent KCCI a statement that read:
“MercyOne takes the safety and security of our patients and families very seriously. The incident that took place last month is extremely troubling. We are actively cooperating with the Des Moines Police Department on this ongoing investigation and have conducted an internal investigation into the matter, which prompted several changes to our policies and protocols to expand our security and prevent this from occurring in the future.

Des Moines Police say they want to find the man and figure out what his motive was. Authorities say MercyOne is cooperating with their investigation.