U.S. woman tried to cut out unborn baby

upmeath

Woman tried to cut out unborn baby - World News, Breaking News - Independent.ie

Wednesday December 09 2009
A pregnant woman who was held at an apartment in a suburb of Washington in the US for five days escaped after her captor tried to cut the unborn baby from her womb, police said.

The victim, who was homeless, was expected to recover and her daughter was delivered by emergency Caesarean section, police added.

Veronica Deramous, 40, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, false imprisonment and other related charges, said Officer Michelle Reedy, a spokeswoman for Prince George's County police.

Authorities said Deramous befriended the woman at a homeless shelter and persuaded her to come to her apartment on December 1 with a promise of baby clothes.

Officer Reedy said Deramous attacked and tied up the woman. Days later, the woman escaped after Deramous tried to cut the unborn baby from her body.

"She bound the victim's hands and proceeded to try to cut the victim's abdomen to try to get the baby out," she said.

Police said Deramous had told relatives and her boyfriend that she was pregnant even though she was not.

At some point, Deramous fell asleep and the woman managed to free herself and flee the apartment, the officer said. Police received a call on Sunday and found the woman bleeding from cuts.

Authorities received a tip that Deramous was in Virginia's Arlington County, where she was arrested. She is waiting to be transported to Maryland to face the charges.

The baby girl was named Miracle Sky.

Press Association


Horrific story, just what was the captor trying to accomplish by taking a pregnant homeless woman in and cutting out her baby?

Jesus Wept

upmeath wrote: »

Horrific story, just what was the captor trying to accomplish by taking a pregnant homeless woman in and cutting out her baby?

A cesarean section.

blackbetty69

the things men do to make babies..:)

upmeath

Hmmm I think my surgical procedural techniques are developing a rust, maybe I could do with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning a homeless person and performing a heart transplant from my labrador. Yes, there's something to fill up a Wednesday evening, screw the Champions' League.

Jesus Wept

Well I guess she probably has a mental health problem.

That_Guy

Miracle Sky is the baby's name?

Meh... Better than Rhianna I suppose.

seamus

Seems to be a surprisingly common occurence in the US - woman claims to be pregnant, goes along with it for a while, realises that when a baby doesn't appear she'll be in trouble, so she takes a heavily pregnant woman (usually a friend), murders her and tries to cut the baby out.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23705223-woman-killed-friend-and-cut-out-her-baby.do
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535202,00.html

WindSock

Attemped first degree murder on whom? The pregnant woman or the unborn baby?

Surely she was trying to cut out the baby for herself to keep. And if she did keep it, she probably would have given the yoke a nicer name.

Edit: Oh right. She tried to kill the homeless chick.

WindSock

seamus wrote: »

Seems to be a surprisingly common occurence in the US - woman claims to be pregnant, goes along with it for a while, realises that when a baby doesn't appear she'll be in trouble, so she takes a heavily pregnant woman (usually a friend), murders her and tries to cut the baby out.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23705223-woman-killed-friend-and-cut-out-her-baby.do
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535202,00.html

Something similar also happened in Eastenders

Naos

Only in America.











/Smirks at Overheal

Wazdakka

Couldn't the mad bitch just adopt?

Ah.. I'm guissing that she failed the psyche test..

"So, how would it affect your life if you were refused for the adoption programme?"
"Well... Affect my life?? Not too much i suppose, but theres this homeless girl down the road who is so gonna get her baby nicked"

upmeath

blackbetty69 wrote: »

the things men do to make babies..:)

The-Rigger wrote: »

Well I guess he probably has a mental health problem.

Either I misread the article and there's a male character involved that I don't know about, or there are a series of keyboards missing the letters w, o, and s.
Miracle Sky, it sounds American Indian. I am Jaguar Paw!!!

Greenmachine

Whatever happened to stealing kids from their buggies now people are taking them from peoples wombs.

phasers

Poor homeless baby

I_luv_2_ski!

the captor was a woman not a man...so shouldn't it be the things women do for babies????

shes a bit strange alrite...god knows what the poor baby could have had considering its mother was homeless...but suppose it would have been a better life then living on the streets!!!

CrazyRabbit

I just took my kid from a bedroom through an open window. A lot less messy.

wudangclan

I_luv_2_ski! wrote: »

the captor was a woman not a man...so shouldn't it be the things women do for babies????

shes a bit strange alrite...god knows what the poor baby could have had considering its mother was homeless...but suppose it would have been a better life then living on the streets!!!

Yeah right.
With a woman who tied her mother up and tried to cut out a baby?

Nichololas

Haha.. women. :rolleyes:

00112984

I_luv_2_ski! wrote: »

shes a bit strange alrite...

Wow, would hate to meet your idea of completely f*cuked up.

WindSock

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

Haha.. women. :rolleyes:

Haha. Yeah. This is what happens to us ALL when we don't get up the duff in time.

Nichololas

WindSock wrote: »

Haha. Yeah. This is what happens to us ALL when we don't get up the duff in time.

Really? I figured it was just her time of the month or somethingorother.

xzanti

There's been a spate of these in the US in the past couple of years it's nothing new.. Still pretty gruesome though, crazy yanks

WindSock

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

Really? I figured it was just her time of the month or somethingorother.

Lack of time of the month, prolly most likely.