An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Stolen Baby Update
Yesterday, I posted this about a woman who showed up at a hospital with a baby that was not hers. Today:
Baby cut from womb; woman’s body ID’d
She was just 18 and due to give birth July 30.
She may have been drugged, authorities said, when she was cut open last week and her unborn child taken from her womb.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Saturday night tentatively identified a woman found dead in a Wilkinsburg apartment — hands duct-taped behind her back — as Kia Johnson of Wilkinsburg, missing since Tuesday.
Authorities found her body on Friday inside the foul-smelling, fly-infested apartment of a Wilkinsburg woman, Andrea Curry-Demus, who showed up at a Pittsburgh hospital on Wednesday, claiming to have given birth prematurely. Tests showed the newborn baby boy, whose umbilical cord was still attached, wasn’t hers. Curry-Demus, 38, is being held in the county jail on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
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“Her abdomen had been opened with a sharp weapon, the uterus had been opened. We discovered a placenta at the scene,” Dr. Karl E. Williams, Allegheny County medical examiner, said yesterday. “The body was in a state of moderate decomposition.”
I still find it incredible that the police didn’t search the woman’s apartment UNTIL a journalist reported the smell. I would think there would be serious probably cause for such a search after the hospital reported the incident.
