Andrea Curry-Demus

ANDREA CURRY-DEMUS FACTS Sentenced to life in prison for gutting a pregnant woman to steal her baby. Convicted of second-degree murder with mental illness. Took the baby and tried to pass it off as her own child. The baby survived the attack and now lives with his grandmother. Terrell Kian Johnson is turning 1 on Wednesday. It's also the day his mother died — when she was kidnapped, bound with duct tape and Terrell sliced from her womb. Now the woman's father, 47-year-old Eric Johnson, is...Read Full Story

Kia Johnson Woman Accused Of Stealing Fetus Pursues Insanity Defense Accused Baby Snatcher Gives Many Different Stories In Court Closing Arguments Expected Soon In Womb Slash, Fetus Theft Case Wilkinsburg Woman Found Guilty, Mentally Ill In Fetus Snatching Case Pa. woman gets life for cutting baby from womb Pa. Woman Gets Life For Cutting Baby From Womb Woman sentenced for cutting baby from mother’s womb Woman who killed to steal baby gets life Convicted In Fetus Snatching...Read Full Story

A Pittsburgh-area woman will spend life in prison for killing a pregnant teen she lured to her apartment, drugging her and cutting the child from the womb before trying to pass off the baby as her own. Forty-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus was sentenced Monday. An Allegheny County judge found the Wilkinsburg woman guilty but mentally ill of second-degree murder in March. That carries the mandatory life sentence imposed formally on Monday. The judge also tacked on 20 years for kidnapping. At her...Read Full Story

A judge has found a Pennsylvania woman guilty but mentally ill of murder for cutting a baby from the womb of a pregnant teenager, killing her. Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning on Monday convicted 40-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus of second-degree murder and kidnapping in the July 2008 death of Kia Johnson. Prosecutors say Curry-Demus lured the 18-year-old Johnson to her Wilkinsburg home, bound her, removed the baby and tried to pass it off as her own. The baby now is living with Johnson's...Read Full Story

A defense attorney for a Pittsburgh-area woman accused of cutting a baby from the womb of a pregnant teenager and passing it off as her own says she was incapable of knowing what she did was wrong. Defense attorney Christopher Patarini will try to convince an Allegheny County judge that 40-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus is not guilty by reason of insanity in the July 2008 death of 18-year-old Kia Johnson. Prosecutor Mark Tranquilli acknowledges that Curry-Demus has problems but said during...Read Full Story