"Suspect sought pregnant woman for baby" October 12, 2011|Associated Press
MILWAUKEE - Desperate to give her boyfriend a son but unable to conceive, Annette Morales-Rodriguez faked a pregnancy for months, court documents say, then began trolling Milwaukee’s streets for pregnant women in hopes of stealing an unborn baby.
After two days of searching, the 33-year-old woman finally spotted Maritza Ramirez-Cruz, who was just a week from her due date.
Morales-Rodriguez lured the young Puerto Rican immigrant into her home, according to court documents, and beat her with a baseball bat before cutting her full-term fetus from her womb with an X-Acto knife, killing both the mother and the baby....
Morales-Rodriguez told investigators she had grown increasingly desperate as her own supposed due date approached. She said she planned for two weeks to find a pregnant woman, according to the criminal complaint filed Monday.
Her search started last Wednesday, court documents say.
On Thursday, she drove around a nonprofit organization that provides Hispanics with health care and found 23-year-old Ramirez-Cruz, who was pregnant with her fourth child and had gone to her doctor’s office to drop off some paperwork....
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