Baby cut out of Murdered Woman
Pastor Dale Morgan
Baby cut out of Murdered Woman*
By staff writers
July 01, 2008 01:05pm
Article from: NEWS.com.au
A BABY is on life support in a US hospital after it was cut from her
murdered mother's womb.
A second woman was arrested after allegedly calling emergency services
late on Friday and telling them she had given birth in a car park in
Washington state, local TV station KNDO/KNDU reported.
Pasco woman Araceli Camacho Gomez, 27, was eight months pregnant when
she was found dead in Columbia Park early on Saturday with her infant
cut from her womb, the station said.
Kennewick woman Phiengchai Sisouvanh, a 23-year-old of Laotian descent,
appeared in Benton County Superior Court overnight charged with Ms
Gomez's murder.
The infant is on life support at a hospital in Spokane.
Kennewick Fire Department received a call from a woman claiming she had
just given birth near a car park and thought the baby had died,
KNDO/KNDU said.
Firefighters found a car with a baby in the back seat and a woman in the
driver's seat naked from the waist down and holding an umbilical cord.
The woman allegedly repeatedly said: "Is my baby OK."
"A fire captain pulled the baby from the driver's side of the rear
door," Kennewick police chief Ken Hohenberg said.
The woman and baby were taken to hospital but medical tests showed the
woman had not recently given birth.
Police searched Ms Sisouvanh's handbag and allegedly found gloves soaked
in blood, bloody paper towels, latex gloves, a boxcutter, string, a baby
bottle and baby socks.
Police later found Ms Gomez's body, with hands and feet bound, in
Columbia Park and determined that was where Ms Sisouvanh allegedly
called emergency services.
"Gomez was deceased and had suffered massive trauma to her stomach
area," Mr Hohenberg said.
A post-mortem examination showed she had been stabbed several times in
the chest.
Cuts near her uterus were consistent with having a baby removed.
A friend of Ms Sisouvanh told KNDU Ms Sisouvanh allegedly called her two
weeks ago to say she was having a baby soon.
Ms Sisouvanh will have a bail hearing on Wednesday.