LeBeth Crisp, a mother of five whose youngest daughter was born Jan. 9 at Lubbock's Covenant Medical Center's Lakeside Campus, said she talked several times over a five-day period with Rayshaun Parson, the Clovis woman who is accused of taking a newborn from the same hospital last week, the Clovis News Journal reported today on its Web site.

Parson, 21, is scheduled to appear today in federal court in Lubbock on a charge that she abducted three-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu from the Lubbock hospital last Saturday. She was arrested early Sunday at her Clovis home, and the baby was found safe at another location in Clovis and was reunited with her parents.

Crisp saw the hospital surveillance videotape of a hooded woman wearing hospital scrubs who allegedly took the infant and thought the person looked familiar, but when she saw Parson's booking photo she was sure it was the woman she'd talked with in January, the News Journal said.

"I had chills all over my body -- I just couldn't believe it," Crisp told the News Journal.

Parson had told her in January that she was visiting a friend in the Lubbock hospital's maternity unit, Crisp told the paper.

"She was really nice. She had intelligent conversations with me. She seemed like an OK person," said Crisp, who told the News Journal she now thinks Parson may have been shopping for a baby.

Crisp said Parson told her she was from Clovis and that she had recently had a baby herself and also had a child in kindergarten at Bella Vista Elementary in Clovis, the News Journal said.

While the two talked about icy road conditions on the road to Lubbock, Crisp said, they also talked about security measures at the hospital, including the armbands placed on newborns that are designed to trigger alarms if they are taken from the unit.

They also discussed how long premature babies needed to stay in the hospital and how staff went about their work, Crisp told the paper.

Crisp also said she recalled seeing Parson wandering the floor in the women's unit late at night and wondered why Parson never had the newborn she had spoken about with her, the News Journal said.

Hospital officials in Lubbock told the News Journal they are taking Crisp's account seriously and have passed on information to law enforcement after a long conversation with Crisp on Wednesday.

Gwen Stafford, senior vice president of Covenant Health Systems in Lubbock, told the paper she had no reason to doubt Crisp's story.

Lt. Scott Hudgens, spokesman for the Lubbock Police Department, told the News Journal that detectives are planning to contact Crisp and that the department isn't aware of any other reported sightings of Parson at the hospital prior to the day of the abduction.

"I'm not trying to say anything bad against Rayshaun," said Crisp, who told the paper she believes hospital security in the women's unit was too lax. "I'm upset with the hospital because this shouldn't have happened."