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Baby Cut From Mother Released From Hospital

Posted Jul 24, 08 8:00 AM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – A baby who was cut from his mother's womb in a brutal murder has left a Pennsylvania hospital, reports the AP. Police say 18-year-old Kia Johnson was bound with duct tape and viciously attacked last week by 38-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus, who had a history of mental illness and obsession with infants after she herself suffered a miscarriage.

More than a decade ago, Curry-Demus stabbed another woman in an apparent plot to steal her newborn, and the next day kidnapped another baby from a hospital. She was released from prison in 1998. The body of Johnson was found Friday in Curry-Demus' apartment. Authorities say the two women met at the Allegheny County Jail while visiting different inmates. 

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Ardana Irvin, leaning on railing, and others stand outside the apartment of Andrea Curry-Demus in Wilkinsburg, Penn. after a woman's body was found inside the apartment Friday, July 18, 2008.   (AP Photo)
In this Thursday, July 17, 2008 image made from video and provided Friday, July 18 by KDKA-TV, Andrea Curry-Demus, center, is seen after being arrested at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh.   (AP Photo)
This is the apartment building of Andrea Curry-Demus, on Elsa Street in Wilkinsburg, Pa. on Monday, July 21, 2008, where a body was discovered on Friday, July 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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