BRONX WOMAN CHARGED WITH STABBING PREGNANT FRIEND, CUTTING BABY OUT OF WOMB

BRONX WOMAN CHARGED WITH STABBING PREGNANT FRIEND, CUTTING BABY OUT OF WOMB

WAKEFIELD, Bronx (WABC) — A woman accused of cutting the unborn baby out of her murdered friend’s womb in the Bronx is being held in the psychiatric ward, and facing murder charges.

Police said the 22-year-old victim, who was nearly 9 months pregnant, was stabbed and killed by a childhood friend. The baby cut from her womb is alive.

Ashleigh Wade told the world she was expecting a baby girl.

The would-be father was so excited that he posted a sonogram picture on his profile, along with links to baby registries in Wade’s name, that listed a due date of Nov. 16.  112315-wabc-bronx-stabbing-baby-img

Wade’s landlord said there was no doubt that her tenant was expecting. However, it was, according to police sources, an elaborate ruse. Wade, they say, was never pregnant — 22-year-old Angelikque Sutton was.

“She told me, I saw her – I knew she was pregnant,” said the landlord.

On Friday afternoon, Sutton, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, visited Wade at her Wakefield apartment, where police say Wade stabbed Sutton to death, and then cut her baby out of her stomach (more…)