Baby Snatchers

What is up with the current rash of baby snatchers? Not only are people snatching babies, but they are cutting them out of the womb.  Kind of disgusting.

The first case takes us to PA where a woman’s body was found at a suspected baby snatcher’s house.  The baby snatcher, who stabbed a woman in 1990 in a plot to steal her unborn infant and tried to snatch an infant out of a hospital days later, showed up at a hospital with a newborn baby who still had the umbilical cord attached.

The woman, Andrea Curry-Demus, tried to pass the baby off as her own but tests revealed the baby was not.  She then claimed she bought the baby for $1000.  A search of the subject’s home revealed a black woman’s body bound with duct tape.  As of yet, they are unable to discern whether the dead woman is the mother of the newborn but there was enough blood at the scene to make them lean in that direction.

According to reports, she pleaded guilty in 1991 to various charges stemming from both incidents then and received 3 to 10 years in prison.  She was paroled in 1998 and began serving a probation.  Guess she should have had to stay a bit longer in jail or been paroled to a mental facility.

Two pregnant black women had been reported missing lately so families were waiting for the body to be identified.  That still leaves one missing…makes you wonder if Curry-Demus has been busier then they think.

The next story derives from Missouri where a woman pleaded guilty to kidnapping a pregnant teenager she met online.  She convinced the girl that she would take her to buy baby clothes but then bound and gagged the girl.  Officer’s responded to the hotel the pair were at for a welfare check only to find the teenager.

They believe, though the kidnapper denies it, that she intended to cut the baby from the teenager’s womb because they found tools to do so in the room.  The kidnapper, Lauren Gash, had registered at “Babies R Us” and had even held a baby shower where friends said she appeared to be pregnant.  She then told relatives a few days later that she had given birth to a baby boy.

The victim gave birth to a healthy baby boy two days after being rescued.  I assume that, during their correspondence online, the victim had mentioned to Gash that she was having a baby boy.

Then I read about a case where a woman tried to snatch a baby right out of the nursery at the hospital.  She actually got away with the baby but authorities caught up with her at her home.

Doesn’t it seem this world is getting stranger and stranger?  Maybe it is just me but between girls throwing their babies away like they are trash, and others kidnapping pregnant women to take their babies…it seems like things in this world are just way too out of whack.