A B.C. woman arrested and charged after allegedly giving three babies “skin-to-skin” contact in a Surrey hospital, has a previous animal cruelty conviction.

Lindsey Susan Hirtreiter, 35, is accused of three counts of assault and remains in custody pending a bail hearing.

According to police, a woman went into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital , at 6:55 a.m. on Oct. 28 where she allegedly removed her shirt and held three infants, giving them skin-to-skin contact.

None of the infants was injured, police said, but hospital security removed the woman from the property.

Sgt. Tige Pollock of the Surrey Police Service the incident is being treated as an assault because “the application of force to any person without their consent is an assault. So the act of pi

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