Baby Cut From Mother’s Womb
A baby girl who was cut from her mother’s womb by another woman who passed the child off as her own has been found alive and taken into safe keeping by authorities in New Hampshire.
According to the reports, the baby, whose mother had intended to call her Sheila Marie, was described as in “pretty good health” after she was found at a homeless persons’ shelter in Plymouth. Staff at the shelter had become suspicious of the woman claiming to be the mother and called the police.
The real mother, Darlene Haynes, 23, was discovered murdered in her home in Worcester, Massachusetts on Monday. Her body, which had been wrapped in bedding and dumped in a cupboard, was found by her landlord who had been investigating a “horrifying smell” in her apartment which he had assumed to be trash.
An autopsy conducted the following day revealed that Haynes’s eight-month fetus was missing. She had head injuries, although the precise cause of death will not be known until toxicology tests reveal whether or not she had been drugged.
Arrested was Julie Corey, 35, from Worcester and charged with being a fugitive from justice. She is likely to face homicide and kidnapping charges. A man who was with Corey was questioned by police and later released.
A worker at the Pemi-Bridge House shelter told the New Hampshire Union Leader that Corey had said the baby was six days old and said she was the mother. The worker said: “I knew something was funny.” Later when she heard news about Haynes’s murder and the removal of her fetus “something went up in the back of my neck”.
The worker said Corey’s behaviour had aroused a lot of suspicion. “She had a lot of post-traumatic stress and was obviously not a well woman. She said a child had been taken from her before, and it’s not going to happen again.”
Is this the first case of fetal abduction? The murder of Haynes is the latest in a long line of fetus abduction cases, including several in which the baby has survived. In December 2004 Lisa Montgomery from Kansas killed a woman she had met through a dog-breeding website and cut the baby from her womb, pretending she was her own. Montgomery has been sentenced to death.
Michelle Bica also killed her neighbour in Ohio and cut her baby out in September 2000. Bica committed suicide as the FBI was arriving at her door; the baby, Oscar Andrews, was found unharmed in a cot upstairs.
Another similar murder-abductions happened in California in 1998 and Illinois in 1995, with the babies surviving in both cases.
The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has studied child abductions and found that nine of the 247 infants taken from their mothers between 1983 and 2006 had been forcibly removed as fetuses by caesarean section. In these cases, eight of the mothers and three of the fetuses died.
Other studies into fetal abductions show that often the attacks are carefully planned. The offenders frequently go to sophisticated lengths to pretend to be pregnant, setting up nurseries and showing friends fake sonograms of their non-existent fetuses. Many also take trouble to learn about the pregnant women they have identified as their victims, befriending them before carrying out the attack when the other woman was typically in the eighth month of pregnancy.
Haynes’s has two eldest children, aged three and five and the baby was to be her fourth child. Her children are being brought up by her grandmother and the third, aged 18 months, is now in state custody following the murder.
Haynes one acquaintance said, “She was a little helpless,” was unemployed and had learning difficulties, according to neighbours who talked to the local Worcester paper the Telegram. What do you think would be the motive of the abductor? Do you think it is necessary to kill someone just to have a baby of your own?
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