SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - A new hearing was scheduled today for a former nonprofit spokesperson accused of kidnapping a woman and her newborn daughter.

Vernado Malone Sr., who once worked as a spokesperson for Justice for Michiana, had a trial date set for October that was canceled. He now faces a Dec. 18 court date.

Court paperwork alleges Malone approached a woman and her newborn daughter at Memorial Hospital in South Bend last July while posing as a consultant for a company called “United As One.”

Malone reportedly had the woman complete intake paperwork for services for domestic violence before taking the woman to a home in Hammond, which investigators say was actually his.

Malone also allegedly made sexually explicit comments toward the woman.

The woman was able to get away by t

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