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The Miami-Dade Police Department confirmed that the tribal police asked them to send officers to accompany them to the hospital out of concern that Johnson might try to intervene. The Miami-Dade police said they were misled into believing the tribal police were acting on a federal court order to take the baby.

\"Upon being made aware of this incident, I have directed the command staff of the involved districts to conduct an immediate inquiry into the matter,\" Juan Perez, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, said in a statement Thursday. \"Once we have additional information, we can determine what, if any, additional steps are necessary. The Miami-Dade Police Department remains committed to the highest performance standards, ethical conduct, and truthfulness in all relationships.”

Baptist Hospital officials said in a statement that two Miami-Dade County police officers arrived at the hospital around 11 a.m. on Sunday with officers from the Miccosukee tribe \"to enforce a court order regarding a child's custody.\"

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\"Baptist Hospital falls under the jurisdiction of the Miami-Dade County Police Department and complies with state and federal laws,\" the hospital's statement said. \"It is our hospital's policy to cooperate with Miami-Dade law enforcement as they enforce court orders. Due to patient privacy laws, we cannot comment on the specific details of any patient care.\"

Osceola got the Miccosukee tribal court to grant her custody of the baby and Sanders' two other children from a previous relationship -- 11-year-old Christian Kelly and 12-year-old Anna Mae Kelly -- by making false charges of abuse against her and Johnson, the parents said.

The couple said Osceola does not want Johnson, 36, involved in raising the baby because he is white.

\"This is a woman who numerous times told Rebecca to her face, 'I'll shoot that white man,'\" Johnson said at Wednesday's news conference. \"But I didn't think she was evil enough to do something like this to her own daughter.\"

But West, Osceola's lawyer, told ABC News that Osceola sought custody of Ingrid and Sanders' two other children from a previous relationship strictly based on concerns for their safety.

\"There's absolutely no merit to accusations that there's animosity to the father because he is white,\" West said prior to Thursday's custody hearing, adding that he, too, is white. \"In this particular case, you have a very volatile history with the father and mother.\"

In her request for an emergency order for temporary custody of her three grandchildren filed on March 16, Osceola charged that Johnson abused her two older grandchildren and that Sanders did nothing to stop it.

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\"My granddaughter, Anna Mae Kelly, and grandson, Christian Kelly, told me Justin Johnson hit them sometime in the month of February,\" Osceola wrote in an affidavit to the tribal court obtained by ABC News. \"Christian told me Justin has been telling him bad things about me and some of my family members, saying we are bad people. Both my grandchildren are afraid of him.\"

\"When I asked if their mom knew Justin hit them, they both told me, 'Yes and she saw it happen and didn't do anything,'\" Osceola wrote. \"Christian also said his mother punched him on another occasion then called and had Justin speak to him on the phone....\"

Both Sanders and Johnson denied the allegations.

The couple said that while they have broken up, they agreed to raise baby Ingrid together.

\"The last time I saw my daughter was the last time I got to hold her, and that was Saturday,\" Johnson said.

ABC News' Victor Oquendo and Briana Montalvo contributed to this report.

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