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Another baby cut from womb: Pennsylvania woman arrested.

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:39:54 -0400

Body discovered partially eviscerated. Placenta Recovered From Scene Where Body Found Autopsy Completed On Body Found In Mystery Baby Case July 19, 2008 PITTSBURGH -- An autopsy completed Saturday on a woman whose hands and legs were bound with duct tape in a Pittsburgh apartment revealed cuts to her lower body. On Friday afternoon, police said they found an unidentified woman's body fac More.. e down and bound with duct tape in a third-floor apartment on Ella Street belonging to Andrea Curry-Demus. Police have not been able to determine the woman's age or identity, but said it appears she died within two days of her discovery. An autopsy completed Saturday morning indicates that the medical examiner found "moderate decomposition" of the body. The medical examiner found tears at the opening of the woman's uterus and lab officials will review placenta recovered from the scene. A precise cause of death remains under investigation. Action News has learned that one of the means medical examiners' officials are using to attempt to identify the woman include reviewing her fingerprints. Woman Arrested After Allegedly Pawning Off Child As Her Own "Everybody in the community had come to her baby shower, brought her gifts and stuff." - Neighbor who knows Curry-Demus On Thursday, Curry-Demus, 38, arrived at West Penn Hospital with a newborn who still had his umbilical cord attached. Police said the baby is doing well at the hospital and will remain there until they figure out who and where his mother is. Wilkinsburg police said Curry-Demus faked her pregnancy and claimed the infant boy was hers before admitting to investigators that she had not given birth and had bought the infant for $1,000. Curry-Demus had told friends for months that she was expecting a child. "She had a baby shower," a neighbor told Channel 4 Action News. "Everybody in the community had come to her baby shower, brought her gifts and stuff." "I went to the baby shower and her wedding," said Ivee Blunt. "I had no idea something like this could happen. I'm totally shocked. And she was so nice and so kind. It's just unbelievable." Body Found Face Down, Bound With Duct Tape On Friday afternoon, police said they found an unidentified woman's body face down and bound with duct tape in Curry-Demus' third-floor apartment on Ella Street. Police have not been able to determine the dead woman's age, but said it appears she died within 24 hours of her discovery. An autopsy is planned for Saturday morning. Flies could be seen circling around the apartment all day and an odor was noticeable from the sidewalk below, but police said they didn't find the body earlier because Curry-Demus' sister led them to the wrong apartment at first, police said. Channel 4 Action News asked Chief Ophelia Coleman if the police were misled and she said "I think that to be true, yes sir." Police said Curry-Demus only told them that she knows the woman as "Tina," and that the woman brought the baby to her apartment. It is unclear whether "Tina" is Tina Carter. The families of two missing pregnant women waited outside the apartment Friday night in hopes of learning their loved one was not the dead woman inside. The family of Kia Johnson, 18, said she's been missing since Tuesday. The family of Tina Carter, 32, hasn't heard from her in a few days but knew she was due to give birth soon. Woman Has Criminal History, Denies Wrongdoing According to the criminal complaint, Curry-Demus said she recently had a miscarriage, so she agreed to buy the baby. "She looked around, like, six to seven months," said Curry-Demus' downstairs neighbor, Taylor Hall. Pieces of "It's A Boy" banners still decorate the outside of the suspect's mother's home, where friends said the shower was held. "She had a miscarriage in June and didn't want to make her mother upset," Wilkinsburg Police Detective Rich Grande said. While leaving the Wilkinsburg Police Department on Thursday, Demus said, "I didn't do nothing." She was arraigned early Friday and remains at the Allegheny County Jail on charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Records show that Demus was arrested in 1990 on suspicion of stabbing a Wilkinsburg mother while allegedly plotting to kidnap the woman's baby. She pleaded guilty in 1991 to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 10 years of probation. "After coming to our attention the fact of who this person is, and that she does have a history of doing this sort of thing before, we are concerned about the (baby's) parent," Coleman said. Less..

Baby P - Owen wins sentence appeal

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:07:38 -0400

One of the three people jailed over the death of Baby P has won an appeal against his indefinite sentence.

Baby Heckles Obama and Blacks Split Over Clinton And Obama.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:18:02 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Blacks are split down the middle over Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the presidential race, seeing both as on their side, a new poll says. At the same time, blacks and whites have starkly different perceptions of Obama's credentials, the Associated Press-Ipsos poll said Wednesday. Blacks are significantly more satisfied than whites that the youthful Illinois senator has sufficient experience to be president. Many blacks seem torn between the two. Obama would be the first black president, while the New York senator and former first lady, along with her husband, is widely popular among blacks. "I'm a black person, but that's not the only thing I like about him," said Raymond Monroe, 63, a retired production supervisor from Abilene, Texas, who backs Obama but says he might shift. "He's young and has new ideas, but she's pretty sharp, too. Instead of good old boys all the time, I think we need a change." Blacks make up about a tenth of voters overall. They are reliably loyal Democrats, voting nearly nine-to-one for the party's candidates in the 2004 and 2006 elections. And while blacks are few in New Hampshire and Iowa, they comprise about half the Democratic primary voters in South Carolina, another early voting state. Their allegiance is especially strong to the Clintons, which will help the New York senator, according several black leaders from around the country. "It's not so much Mrs. Clinton they're backing, it's that she's married to the ex-president," said Mayor Willie Adams Jr. of Albany, Ga. In the late September poll, Clinton led Obama among whites by 35 percent to 18 percent, Blacks were essentially evenly divided, 40 percent for Obama and 38 percent for Clinton. Among all Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, Clinton led by 35 percent to 23 percent. All those measurements have been steady for months in the AP-Ipsos poll. Faced with choosing between two potential White House firsts -- the first black president or the first female -- black women split 47 percent for Clinton, 37 percent for Obama. Clinton has led decisively among all women nationally. Mayor Gwendolyn Faison of Camden, N.J., the city's first female black mayor, said a breakthrough for women would appeal to her but she has yet to pick a candidate. "Being a female, we don't have that many females in authority positions," said Faison. "We have to show the men that we, too, can do the job." Black men leaned toward supporting Obama over Clinton by 44 percent to 28 percent, and he had an edge among younger black voters -- the opposite of her lead among all men and young people. He also gets stronger support from college-educated blacks -- one of the few areas where he leads Clinton overall. The nation is evenly split over whether Obama has enough experience for the White House, but with clear racial differences. Besides almost three years in the Senate, Obama, 46, was an Illinois state senator, law professor, community organizer and Harvard University law graduate. On an issue that pits those credentials against Clinton's longer resume, blacks by 66 percent to 23 percent said Obama is sufficiently experienced to be president. Whites said "no" by 48 percent to 40 percent, and even white Democrats divided evenly over whether his experience was satisfactory. Toni Pena, 36, a homemaker in Odessa, Texas, said she preferred Clinton or former Vice President Al Gore to Obama because "they both obviously would have more experience than he would, being that both of them have been in the White House." The experience question could be crucial for Obama. Democrats who say he has adequate experience prefer him over Clinton by 40 percent to 28 percent, while those who say he does not back Clinton by an overwhelming 47 percent to 4 percent. Some blacks in the survey said doubts about Obama's experience represent a racial double standard because President Bush -- deeply unpopular among blacks -- had only been Texas governor before his 2000 election victory. "I hate to play the race card, but I don't remember people saying George Bush didn't have the right experience," said Patricia McCree, 70, a retired college administrator from San Diego who currently supports Clinton. Asked about the survey, Obama pollster Cornell Belcher said it is "very impressive" that Obama is winning as much support as he is against Clinton, who is far better known. Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist, said the black community "sees her as a champion for their issues." About half of both blacks and whites said Obama would do a better job of representing blacks' interests as president. Thirty-nine percent of blacks -- compared with 26 percent of whites -- said she would do better. Blacks signaled more support than whites for Obama should he become the Democratic nominee. Eighty-three percent of blacks and 60 percent of whites said they would at least consider voting for him in November 2008, with the blacks who said they would definitely vote for him outpacing whites by nearly three-to-one. The survey was conducted Sept. 21-25 and involved telephone interviews with 1,317 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. Included were interviews with 368 blacks, for whom the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points. 865 whites were interviewed, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 points.

DNA links foot found in B.C. to missing man

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:45:55 -0400

Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:13 PM CBC News One of five human feet found off the British Columbia coast since last August has been identified as belonging to a man who was reported missing from the B.C. Lower Mainland last year, according to the RCMP. An RCMP spokesman said familial DNA was used to match the foot to a depressed man whose name has not been released. Foul play in the case is no More.. t suspected, Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told CBC News on Saturday. He said police plan to hold a news conference on Monday to release more details. "We were able to notify the family yesterday, and out of respect for them, they asked that we give them at least 48 hours to get together as a family with other relatives and deal with this development," Lemaitre said. In the last year, five feet have washed up on small islands in the Georgia Strait and Fraser River, each encased in a running shoe. Police have said that none of the feet appears to have been intentionally severed, but likely detached through a natural process. Police showcased the running shoes during a news conference earlier this month in the hopes of solving the cases. Lemaitre said investigators told another family on Friday that the feet are definitely not those of two relatives who died in a plane crash off Quadra island in February 2005. The bodies of brothers Doug and Trevor DeCock were never found in the wreckage. Meanwhile, a coroner in Washington state said on Friday that he will be talking to the B.C. Coroners Service about a body found 16 months ago on Orcas Island in the San Juan archipelago. Despite the torrent of publicity over the five severed feet in recent weeks, San Juan County coroner Randall Gaylord said he did not advise B.C. investigators about the discovery until Thursday. Gaylord said the body did not have a right arm, left hand or any feet. The body was discovered five months before the first of the five feet was discovered on B.C.'s Jedidiah Island. Gaylord said he advised B.C. investigators about the discovery on Thursday after reading a newspaper article about the case recently. Less..

Baby’s miracle escape

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:25:54 -0400

A baby survives as its pram is hit by a train.

Nicholas Cage visits Bath baby unit

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:07:06 -0400

Hollywood star Nicholas Cage has visited Bath’s Royal United Hospital to support their campaign to build a new baby unit. More »

Amazing video of baby surviving being hit by train

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:07:09 -0400

A six-month-old baby has survived being dragged more than 30 metres by a train after his pram rolled onto tracks. . More »

Woman accused of killing baby arrested on probation violation

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:26:18 -0500

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A woman accused of putting her newborn in a backpack and throwing it in a canal, was arrested Thursday for violating probation in an insurance fraud scam, authorities said. Aimee Lee Weiss, who was an office assistant for a chiropractor, was one of three suspects arrested in the undercover operation. She is charged with making a false and fraudulent insurance claim and violation of probation, said Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Elliot Cohen. Weiss, 24, and others charged insurance companies for treatments that were never performed. Two healthy, undercover detectives were diagnosed with concussions and a broken neck. The office never treated the detectives, but submitted 46 claims totaling $18,075 and promised to give the detectives a cut of the insurance payments, according to a news statement. Weiss made national headlines in 2001 after she confessed to delivering a baby alone in her Tamarac home, wrapped underwear around his neck and threw him in the canal, according to investigators. Weiss, 17 at the time, said the baby was stillborn after a secret pregnancy. Prosecutors later reduced first-degree murder charges against her after a judge threw out her confession because detectives used a botched Miranda rights warning form when they questioned her. She later pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter. Weiss was being held at the Broward County jail on $1,000 bond. It was not immediately known if Weiss had an attorney