The family of a northern Ontario woman accused of abducting a day-old baby girl from a maternity ward in Sudbury, Ont., is shocked by the allegations, a relative said Monday.

Family members of Brenda Batisse, 29, were at the Sudbury Courthouse Monday afternoon, where she was making her court appearance for one charge of child abduction.

"We love Brenda and we are here to support her," an aunt told CTV Northern Ontario. The family was shocked to hear the allegations, she said.

An Amber Alert was issued when the baby went missing from Sudbury Regional Hospital Thursday afternoon. The search ended when the child was recovered later that night in Kirkland Lake, about 300 kilometres from Sudbury.

Hospital surveillance video released to assist in the search showed a woman wearing hospital scrubs walking through the hospital with a blanket-swaddled bundle in her arms.

CTV Northern Ontario reported that Batisse appeared sad and distraught during Monday's proceedings, and cried when the justice of the peace told her there wasn't enough time left to hold a bail hearing.

She could return to court as early as Thursday.

"This case has to work its way through the criminal justice system," said defence lawyer Berk Keaney. "It would be a great disservice to the system, to the administration of justice if people were to come to conclusions without the opportunity of hearing evidence."

Batisse's aunt said she wasn't a "criminal person," but had lived a hard life and had been abused in the past.

Police confirmed that Batisse, a mother of two daughters, aged 6 and 8, was pregnant before her arrest on Thursday.

People close to Batisse have said there may have been a miscarriage, but police have not commented on what happened to the pregnancy.

Battise's live-in boyfriend, Trevor Shram, had initially been arrested but was released over the weekend.

Police said in a statement that Shram "had no involvement in the abduction of the infant from hospital," and that all charges against him had been dropped.

With a report from CTV Northern Ontario's Alana Everson