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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3778663.stm

Colombian baby 'stolen from womb'


Colombian police say they have arrested a woman for stealing an unborn baby from its mother's womb.
The woman faces charges of drugging the child's mother and leading her to a house where her womb was cut open.

Police say the operation to remove the eight-month-old foetus may have been performed with a kitchen knife.

The baby - found with the alleged kidnapper - has been re-united with its true mother, who had been left for dead in the central town of Girardot.

'Not acting alone'

She managed to summon help, despite bleeding heavily from the surgery.

"When I felt my belly, it was empty," Angela Cartagena told a local television station from her hospital bed. "And the baby was crying and crying."

The mother said she remembers seeing the kidnapper leave with her baby wrapped in cloth.

Police believe the kidnapper was not acting alone and are hunting for her accomplices.

They arrested their suspect after tests showed a newly-born baby she claimed as her own was not hers.

Kidnapping is rife in Colombia, mostly carried out for ransom by armed criminals or soldiers from one of several guerrilla forces fighting the state.

the world keeps getting freakier and freakier. and sicker.

 

[Particle Physicist]

wow... wow... my god . . wow.

 

[Ill Saint]

"the world keeps getting freakier and freakier. and sicker."

It's always been that way, and it will always stay that way.

 

[Desperado]

FUCKED. UP. >_<

 

[Bishman]

What is the world coming to?

 

[evil ways]

As sick and crazy as it sounds, I'm not that surprised since it's Colombia. I've heard stories of how people are kidnapped by the guerilla and parts of their bodies like legs, feet, hands, eyes etc. are cut off and sent to relatives in order to make them pay the ransom if they refuse or take too long.

 

[Wario64]

What the fuck?!

 

[Kalren]

you'd think it would be easier to grow your own....

 

[Mumbles]

*sigh*

(shakes head)

 

[ohamsie]

Just when you think you've heard it all, something like this comes up. I'm going to lose sleep knowing people like that are out there.

 

[nubbe]

What is wrong with people?

 

[MrPing1000]

damn colombia is messed

 

[DSN2K]

what the hell ?

 

[mrmyth]

Why's everybody so fucked up about it happening in Columbia? It happened in Evanston, Illinois a few years ago, and I seem to recall the mother dying.

The world has always been this fucked up.

 

[clipunderground]

Jesus. Thats fucking insane!!! 0_o

 

[Ghost]

call me stupid, but wouldnt it be a hell of a lot easier to steal a baby thats been born?