There are no words to describe this...

[Beneath the Shadows]

Woman Charged in Pregnant Teen's Death
By RAMESH SANTANAM

PITTSBURGH (July 20) - A woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant woman's uterus and stealing the baby has been charged with homicide, unlawful restraint and kidnapping, police said Sunday.
Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, of Wilkinsburg, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport. Curry-Demus is accused of taking the baby boy to a Pittsburgh hospital and claiming it was her own.

Johnson's body was found Friday in Curry-Demus's apartment. The body was positively identified through dental records, Allegheny County Medical Examiner Karl Williams said Sunday.

In the criminal complaint, police said that video surveillance at the Allegheny County Jail from Tuesday afternoon shows Curry-Demus talking with Johnson for several minutes. The women were at the jail visiting different inmates, police said.

The clothing Johnson is seen wearing on the surveillance tape was consistent with the garments found on her body, police said.

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said the jail was the last time Johnson was seen alive.

Curry-Demus was being held in county jail on Sunday and it was not immediately clear whether she had an attorney. A lawyer who had represented her previously did not immediately return a phone message left Sunday.

No one was home at the McKeesport home of Johnson's father on Sunday.
In the criminal complaint, police said Johnson's body was found bound at the wrists and ankles with duct tape, and there were layers of duct tape and plastic covering much of her head. Her body was wrapped in a comforter and garbage bags and placed under the headboard of the bed in the master bedroom.

Williams said Johnson appeared to have been dead for about two days. She "had a wound to the abdomen consistent with the removal of a baby," Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said.
"A very sharp instrument" was used to cut open Johnson's belly, he said.
Authorities said Johnson was 36 weeks pregnant, and they were trying to determine whether she was alive when the baby was removed. They also are awaiting toxicology tests to find out whether she was drugged. Test results are not expected for several weeks.

Police said in the complaint that Curry-Demus denied meeting Johnson but that she told investigators that her fingerprints would be on the duct tape and plastic used to wrap the body.

Curry-Demus showed up at the hospital Thursday with a newborn that still had the umbilical cord attached, police said. Tests later proved that she was not the mother.

Police said Curry-Demus initially told investigators she bought the baby for $1,000 from the its mother. She later said two people brought a pregnant woman to her apartment Tuesday evening, removed the baby the next day and gave it to her. She said she then took the newborn to her sister's apartment and told her she had just given birth, police said.

The victim's cousin, Tereka Nesbit, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Johnson told an aunt about two weeks before she disappeared that she had met a couple of women in the jail's visiting area and had gone to their homes after a jail visit.

"There's no question she's trusting," said Nesbit, 33, of McKeesport. "She was so kind and sweet." She said a grown man would not have been able to lure her cousin, "but a friendly woman would. She would have been thrilled to talk to anybody about (her) baby."

Nesbit called her cousin's death "unfathomable."

"She suffered so much," Nesbit said. "We're sick about this."

Wilkinsburg Police Chief Ophelia Coleman said Sunday the child was "under observation." Williams earlier said the baby was "apparently doing well." The hospital has declined to release any information about the child.

In 1990, Curry-Demus, then known as Andrea Curry, was accused of stabbing a woman in an alleged plot to steal the woman's infant. A day after that stabbing, Curry-Demus snatched a 3-week-old baby girl from a hospital after the child's 16-year-old mother had gone home for the night. The baby was found unharmed with Curry-Demus at her home the next day.

Curry-Demus pleaded guilty in 1991 to various charges from both incidents and got three to 10 years in prison, according to court records. She was paroled in August 1998.

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The fact that something like this can occur, anywhere, is truly frightening and disturbing. I don't even know how to describe how disturbed I am after reading this. I'm just glad that the child is apparently unharmed.

[viscus]

Wow. She really needs to be locked up for the rest of her life.

[MitsyMayhem]

That's pretty fucked up.

[Underwater Ophelia]

What's saddest is that she's clearly insane, but she'll be demonized as if she's not.

I'm not saying it's excusable, but it's obvious that the woman is very sick.

[Cicero]

Foetus snatching like this is far more common than it should be. Real life horror film material (the movie 'Inside'...).

[Tam Li Hua]

x_x;;;

Holy cow! Yeah, this lady needs to be in a padded cell or something, far far away from the rest of society.

[Jaye Jang]

What really sickens me is that they let her out, more than once. There needs to be harsher sentences for repeat offenders. If there were that poor little girl would still be alive.

[Godslayer Jillian]

What the fuck could she want by running away with a bloody uterus in her hand?

[LiUsAiDh]

Surely she has had some kind of issues in the past involving babies, she needs counselling.

[Wormboy]

Originally Posted by LiUsAiDh

Surely she has had some kind of issues in the past involving babies, she needs counselling.

Yeah, electroshock therapy. Few hundred thousand volts or so.

[Jaye Jang]

Okay, the gloves come off. Somebody just needs to lock this woman up and throw away the key.

[Satan's Song]

This is horribly sick! >_<
Geez, someone execute that woman! o_O

[KontanKarite]

She deff needs some kind of retooling in the head. Wow...