New York - A baby girl ripped from the womb of her murdered mother is alive, and a woman found with the infant has been arrested, US police said Thursday.
The miraculous news came a day after police found the mutilated body of a woman in an apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts - and realised that a foetus was missing from her womb.
"The most important part of this investigation has been accomplished. We do have the girl. Thankfully, she's fine," Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst, of the Worcester police department, said on local NECN television.
Police said a woman had been arrested in possession of the baby in neighbouring New Hampshire state, and charged with kidnapping, although no one has been charged yet in the murder of the mother.
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"This was a very gruesome homicide, a very unique one, one that I haven't come across in my years here," Hazelhurst said.
"There's still a lot of work to be done on this case. We have many more people to interview. We have a lot of following up to do."
The horrific crime was discovered when the landlord at the small apartment building in Worcester went to investigate a foul smell on the second floor.
"He opened the door and discovered what was found to be a body," a police officer told NECN on Wednesday.
The victim was identified as Darlene Haynes, 23, and approximately eight months pregnant.
Suspicions emerged about the woman now in police custody, Julie Corey, 35, after she claimed to have given birth.
"She contacted her friends Friday and said she'd just had a baby girl late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Then she showed up at her house later on the day on Friday which made many of her acquaintances suspicious," Hazelhurst said. - AFP
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