Colombian baby 'stolen from womb'

[muriel_volestrangler]

No, this is not some weird anti-abortion story - it's exactly what the headline sounds like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3778663.stm

The woman faces charges of drugging the child's mother and leading her to a house where her womb was cut open.
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The baby - found with the alleged kidnapper - has been re-united with its true mother, who had been left for dead in the central town of Girardot.

She managed to summon help, despite bleeding heavily from the surgery.

[arcos]

1. very disturbing...

Things in Colombia are getting really scary.

[soothsayer]

2. This happened a few years ago right here in the good ol US of A

Remember? Chick murdered that pregnant woman (might have even been her boyfriend's preggers girlfriend) and cut the baby out and stole it. I think the mom died in that case.

[yankeeinlouisiana]

4. Yes, the mother

did die in that case. They also killed her two older children so the murderers wouldn't be identified. However, they were caught. Very sad and horrible case.

[Warpy]

3. This happened in New Mexico about 10 years ago

but the mom died. The killer was caught.

I've heard of a couple of cases since then in the US.

It's rare, but not unheard of, a bizarre crime by crazy women fixated on having a baby (but unwilling or unable to go through the messy proceducre of creating their own). Sometimes the women have male accomplices. Most times, they do the crime on their own.