Ore. investigators: Woman cut open, baby taken
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Slideshow:Baby taken from pregnant Ore. woman By RYAN KOST, Associated Press Writer Ryan Kost, Associated Press Writer – 24 mins ago
HILLSBORO, Ore. – A pregnant 21-year-old newcomer to Oregon who was found dead in a crawl space of a home had been cut open and her baby taken from her womb, investigators said Monday. It couldn't be determined if the infant son of Heather Snively died before or after he was removed, the Washington County sheriff's department said in a statement.

A 27-year-old Beaverton woman, Korena Roberts, was to be arraigned Monday on a murder charge in Snively's death.

Investigators have said Roberts claimed Snively's infant was her own. Police were called to the home Friday because a newborn wasn't breathing. Doctors were unable to revive him and told officers that Roberts had not given birth. Police then found Snively's body at Roberts' home.

A medical examiner said Monday that Snively died of blunt and sharp force injuries.

"At this time, it has not been determined if she died because of head wounds she received or as a result of cutting injuries she received to her abdomen," the sheriff's office said.

Investigators said Roberts had been telling friends and family members for months that she was pregnant. They said Roberts may have been in contact with other pregnant women.

Snively had recently moved to Oregon from Maryland because her boyfriend and father of the child had found a better job. He reported Snively missing Friday night.

Snively's mother, Heidi Kidd of St. Albans, W.Va., said Snively met Roberts a few weeks ago through Craigslist, the online classified service. Roberts told Snively she was pregnant and wanted baby clothes, Kidd said. They befriended one another and kept talking online.

Kidd told The Associated Press on Sunday that her first grandson was to be named John Steven.

"I'm still in shock; it hasn't hit me," she said. "I mean, that initial phone call; I just couldn't believe it. I just could not believe I was talking about my own child."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_on_re_us/us_pregnant_woman_killed

I watched it on the news too. It was so sad and disgusting, knowing the murderer also had two other kids. Yeah it was shocking.

this thread shd be under crime,

You would think that in a country like the USA where adoption is not a taboo, such incidences wont occur, unlike Nigeria, where adoption for the most part is still conducted in secrecy. Yet, I am yet to read of a Nigerian woman, no matter how desperate she is, killing a pregnant female and running off with the baby in the womb. But this bizzare and ghoulish/devilish acts persists in the USA, a country where adoption is accepted.

How about the woman that stabbed her neighbor in the heart in front of that woman's daughter? Abi that happened in another country named Nigeria?

tunku:

How about the woman that stabbed her neighbor in the heart in front of that woman's daughter? Abi that happened in another country named Nigeria?

Dude, dont digress, the topic is about women killing other pregnant women to steal their unborn foetus and parade them as theirs.