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Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by bmd1010: 8:28am On Nov 10, 2022
A Texas woman convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and ripping out her unborn baby was sentenced to death Wednesday, Nov. 9.

29-year-old Taylor Rene Parker was convicted of capital murder on Oct. 3, 2022, in the killing of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and her infant daughter in New Boston in Oct. 2020.

On the morning of Oct. 9, 2020, Parker crushed Simmons-Hancock’s skull with a hammer and stabbed her more than 100 times in her home before removing her baby from her womb with a scalpel. Parker fled with the baby girl who later died.

jury of six men and six women in Bowie County deliberated for less than two hours on Nov. 9 before handing down the death sentence for Parker, TXK Today reported.

Emily Simmons, the victim’s sister, said to Parker in an emotional victim impact statement before jurors began deliberating: "My only biological sister. You need to understand what you took from me and my family. No more celebrating her birthday. I was barely 19 when I got the call my sister was gone.

"She will never be my maid of honor. If I visit my sister I have to go to a graveyard and see a headstone. I will never get a text or phone call her from again."

Simmons-Hancock’s mother, Jessica Brooks, called Parker an "evil piece of flesh demon."

The heartbroken mum said: "My baby was alive still fighting for her babies when you tore her open and ripped her baby from her stomach,.

In the 10 months leading up to the murder, Parker had faked her own pregnancy in an elaborate scheme to prevent her boyfriend from leaving her, prosecutors said.

She wore pregnancy disguises, faked ultrasounds, posted about her pregnancy online and even threw a gender reveal party for the fake baby.

Parker, who could not conceive after a hysterectomy, told her boyfriend she would be induced to deliver the baby on the day of the murder.

Prosecutors said she intensively researched how to fake a pregnancy and watched numerous videos on delivering babies preterm at 35 weeks, which is how far along Simmons-Hancock was when she was killed.

After her sentencing, Parker was slated to be moved to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses its female death row inmates, court officials told TXK.

Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2022/11/woman-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-pregnant-woman-and-ripping-out-unborn-baby.html

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by justicechichex: 8:42am On Nov 10, 2022
Wtf did I just read??

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Dreal1247: 8:44am On Nov 10, 2022
This is cruelty and wickedness personified. When the devil wants to destroy, he makes him to feel successful in carrying out wicked activities. Forgetting the possibility of being captured.

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Zonefree(m): 8:49am On Nov 10, 2022
Too many deranged beings in almighty America.

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by feranmi143: 8:55am On Nov 10, 2022
Yo fish, two paying client going offline for ever grin

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by bmd1010: 12:05pm On Nov 10, 2022
feranmi143:
Yo fish, two paying client going offline for ever grin
meaning

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by dex4sure: 12:10pm On Nov 10, 2022
Wickedness everywhere.
Time for angel Michael to blow the trumpet is long overdue.

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by TheSourcerer: 1:58pm On Nov 10, 2022
Something Similar happened back in 2009

On June 8, 2009 — -- An Oregon woman charged with killing a 21-year-old pregnant woman and then claiming the woman's baby as her own had lured her victim to her home through Craigslist.

Authorities believe that Heather Megan Snively, whose body was found in a crawl space in Korena Elaine Roberts' home on Friday, had been using the online classified service to find baby clothes for her unborn son.
An autopsy released Monday said that the death was caused by "homicidal violence," according to Dr. Christopher Young, a deputy state medical examiner.

Snively suffered blunt and sharp force injuries leading to her death, said Young. It was not immediately clear how which injury caused her death.

In a press release Monday afternoon, Sgt. David Thompson of the Washington County Sheriff's Office said that Snively's unborn son was cut out of her stomach after she was killed.

Polcei said Roberts had also been lying to friends and family in the weeks prior to Snively's death that she was pregnant.

"She had told many people she knew, including her live-in boyfriend, that she was pregnant with twins," said Thompson.

Roberts may have been in contact with other pregnant women in the area, said Thompson, who encouraged anyone who has spoken to Roberts to contact their local police department.

The two women had communicated for just under a week leading up to the gruesome murder, police and the victim's mother said.

"Our source is saying that the two women were communicating to buy or trade baby clothes," said Thompson.


Thompson said that while the Craigslist connection has not yet been "forensically confirmed" that it is likely the way that Snively and Roberts met.

Snively's mother, Heidi Kidd, told the Associated Press that she too believed her daughter met her alleged killer on Craigslist. According to Kidd, Snively and Roberts became online friends and then decided to meet in person.

"I guess they decided to meet and I guess that was the wrong thing to do," Snively told the AP. "But Heather's always been a very trusting person."

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by TheSourcerer: 2:03pm On Nov 10, 2022
Alleged Craigslist Baby-Stealer Met Mom-to-Be Before Her Killing
Deon Whitaker, 48, lives on the same block as Roberts and reports having seen Snively at the Roberts residence before the day of the murder.

"It was the same woman who was killed," said Whitaker of the woman she spotted coming out of Roberts' home "sometime in the past month."

"This is a tragedy," she said.

Whitaker described Snively as being visibly pregnant. She said that she never saw Roberts or her boyfriend, but would sometimes see a young boy playing on the couple's lawn.

Snively had been in her third trimester at the time of her death.

Roberts, 27, has two young children who were not home at the time of the murder, authorities said.

Police in Washington County were called to Roberts' home last week after a 911 call reporting a baby in distress was received. The first responders found Roberts, an unidentified man and a newborn child who was not breathing in the bloodied home.

The man has not been charged with any crime, police said.

Roberts told authorities that she had just delivered the baby and was sent to the hospital, where doctors discovered no evidence of her having given birth in the recent past and pronounced the baby boy dead.

"She wasn't dilated," said Thompson.

Roberts, who was arrested and charged with murder, will be arraigned later today, said Thompson. She is currently being held without bail and a lawyer for her was not immediately known. Thompson said that Roberts could face additional charges of murder regarding the unborn baby.

Thompson declined to say if Roberts made any statements at the time of her arrest or during the investigation.

Snively and her boyfriend, Christopher Popp, recently moved to Oregon from Maryland because of a job opportunity. Popp, the father of the child, reported Snively missing, according to Thompson.

While the cause of the baby's death is still not known, Snively's death is eerily similar to past crimes involving pregnant women.

In July 2008, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong was arrested for allegedly binding together a pregnant woman's hands and feet, removing her baby and stabbing the woman to death. Police in Seattle said that Synhavong claimed that the baby was her own.

Women Stealing Another's Baby From Womb Called 'Desperation'
Earlier that year, two other women in Illinois and Missouri were convicted of similar crimes.

Lisa Montgomery of Melvem, Kan., was sentenced to death in April 2008 after killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a woman she met in an online chatroom. Eventually meeting her victim in her Missouri home and cutting Stinnett's baby, then in the eighth month of gestation, from her womb. Police said Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the infant from its mother's stomach.

Twenty-six year old Tiffany Hall committed a similar crime, killing her pregnant friend and cutting her unborn child from her womb in a bathtub.

Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and head of The Forensic Panel, told ABCNews.com that these types of crimes are generally acts of "desperation."

"Characteristically, in the past, cases come up where women kill to establish their fertility," said Welner.

"It's a crime more common in primitive cultures, where women feel the need to establish their mothering identity," he said. "They can't get away with this in hospitals here. They check too thoroughly."
She’s vile and stupid just that vile stupid and impulsive, crude deceptive nature, child-like manipulations smh , she reason is the lowest form of being

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Kobicove(m): 2:18pm On Nov 10, 2022
Before I even opened the thread I already knew it would be an oyinbo woman!

It's only a white person that can commit this type of crime! angry

Bloody psychos!

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Akinsete19(m): 2:18pm On Nov 10, 2022
Devil herself

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Emu4life(m): 2:19pm On Nov 10, 2022
Did you know??

There are more mentally challenged people in the USA than normal people

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Treasure17(m): 2:19pm On Nov 10, 2022
Evil on another level.

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Kingzeez10: 2:19pm On Nov 10, 2022
What did I just read

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by zinaunreal(m): 2:20pm On Nov 10, 2022
Keep space in hell for obasanjo and tinubu

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by kushma(m): 2:20pm On Nov 10, 2022
Hmm, psychos everywhere.
Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by EMMANUELNATION(m): 2:20pm On Nov 10, 2022
heartless+wickedness=Evil

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Mevih(m): 2:20pm On Nov 10, 2022
Wow
Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by gambia(m): 2:20pm On Nov 10, 2022
Crazy world indeed.
Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by 900warriorz: 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
That's a cruel thing to do

Serves her right angry

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by siraj1402(m): 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
Thought capital punishment has been abolished in the US?

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by Emu4life(m): 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
......

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by dxdiag(m): 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
This is total madness, diluted with witchcraft.
Even if she can't conceive why not go for adoption for christ sake?
Why murder a pregnant lady just for the sake of making her unborn baby your?
Lots of physcos in this united state.

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by JOACHINpedro: 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
The devil dey learn work here.

In the 10 months leading up to the murder, Parker had faked her own pregnancy in an elaborate scheme to prevent her boyfriend from leaving her, prosecutors said.

She wore pregnancy disguises, faked ultrasounds, posted about her pregnancy online and even threw a gender reveal party for the fake baby.

Parker, who could not conceive after a hysterectomy, told her boyfriend she would be induced to deliver the baby on the day of the murder.
Freedom come at a cost.
My body, my uterus
If you know, you know

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Re: Texas: Woman Sentenced To Death For Killing Pregnant Woman, Ripping Unborn Baby by MasterJayJay: 2:21pm On Nov 10, 2022
Pro abortion activist, what do you have to say about the baby? Was it a human being?

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