Psycho Steals Baby from Mothers WOMB

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-21 08:58am

Woman in Pittsburgh baby mystery charged with homicide, kidnapping

By Ramesh Santanam, The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh 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.

Police said in court papers 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 had denied meeting Johnson, police said in court papers.

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 then said she bought the baby for $1,000 from the baby's mother.

The baby was "apparently doing well," Williams said Saturday. The hospital would not release any information about the boy's condition.

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 three-week-old baby girl from a hospital. 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.

Um, words fail me.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2008-07-21 10:47am

Link doesn't work.

I would not want her to be my mother. I'm not sure if I'm glad or not that she never thought of adoption.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-07-21 10:56am

I think I'm going to be sick.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-21 11:25am

Soontir C'boath wrote:Link doesn't work.

Worked at my end.

Should be on the front page of Yahoo. But the entire article was qouted.

Akumz Razor · Post by **Akumz Razor** » 2008-07-21 01:53pm

Truly sickening. However, I seem to remember reading a story about this same thing happening a year or so ago. Anybody else remember this kind of crime happening before?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-07-21 01:55pm

It happens now and then.

Darmalus · Post by **Darmalus** » 2008-07-21 02:05pm

I am rather curious as to the motivation for such a crime. Jealousy? Maybe something more complicated?

Akumz Razor · Post by **Akumz Razor** » 2008-07-21 02:14pm

Seems like the same old "I need a baby to give me unconditional love" routine.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2008-07-21 02:19pm

Akumz Razor wrote:Seems like the same old "I need a baby to give me unconditional love" routine.

these people never thought of getting a fucking dog?

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-21 02:22pm

(That Type of Person) Are you kidding? Dogs are hard to look after, and bite you! And you have to watch them or they run away!(/Person)

Do you think any of the 'I need a baby to be useful / loved' types are even competent enough to train a dog?

Dogs are smarter then alot of kids. They'd take off at the first chance.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-07-21 02:35pm

Akumz Razor wrote:Seems like the same old "I need a baby to give me unconditional love" routine.

Actually, I suspect it's more likely that these people envy those who have achieved the family model promulgated by our society, and they wish to emulate it. But they're missing some of the ingredients, so they try to take them by force.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-07-21 03:53pm

The last time I heard about this, it was about a bunch of black men cutting a mixed race child out of a white woman because they didn't think she was "deserving" or some such crazy bullshit. I'd expect something similar here.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2008-07-21 04:18pm

Uh, why? The woman was 38 and claimed the kid was hers when she took him to the hospital. It seems like she was trying to get a child of her own. Plus she's apparently tried kidnapping children, born or not, before. Clearly out of her mind, but it doesn't seem racially motivated or anything like that.

cosmicalstorm · Post by **cosmicalstorm** » 2008-07-21 04:20pm

I spend time at a website aimed at weird crimes and such, these incidents actually seem to be pretty common, I cant say anything exact but I think one story like this one pops up every six months.
The perpetrators are simply shit-fucking insane.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-07-21 04:29pm

Erik von Nein wrote:Uh, why? The woman was 38 and claimed the kid was hers when she took him to the hospital. It seems like she was trying to get a child of her own. Plus she's apparently tried kidnapping children, born or not, before. Clearly out of her mind, but it doesn't seem racially motivated or anything like that.

Oh, the race thing was important in the last news item I saw on this sort of crime, but I don't think it was here. I didn't mean this was the same thing entirely, except maybe determining other mothers weren't worthy. You're probably right.

[R_H] · Post by **[R_H]** » 2008-07-21 05:44pm

cosmicalstorm wrote:I spend time at a website aimed at weird crimes and such, these incidents actually seem to be pretty common, I cant say anything exact but I think one story like this one pops up every six months.
The perpetrators are simply shit-fucking insane.

Aren't the perpetrators of these types of crimes usually women?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-07-21 08:02pm

Looked like every time she made the attempt she went for younger and younger child. Since this is the third time maybe they'll throw away the key?

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-22 08:08am

Actually, I'm wondering why kidnappers of babies don't have the key thrown away the first time they do it.

That's pretty fucking insane, stealing someone elses baby.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-07-22 09:58am

Solauren wrote:Actually, I'm wondering why kidnappers of babies don't have the key thrown away the first time they do it.

Not enough room in the prisons for such people and all of the drug industry-related convicts.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-07-22 11:11am

Yeah, we've got to keep those teen-age stoners in jail, but we can let baby-snatchers walk around!

The stupidity of vice laws raises it's head again.