Andrea Curry-Demus

Andrea Curry-Demus

Andrea Curry-Demus, of Wilkinsburg, Penn., was arrested after allegedly murdering 18-year-old Kia Johnson and cutting the unborn baby from her womb.

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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 raising Terrell and trying to plan his first birthday party, complete with cake and maybe a clown, but also a day for profound grief. "It was a birthday and a death. ... It's a wee bit hard to swallow," said Johnson, of McKeesport. Kia Johnson was 18 years old and 36 weeks pregnant when authorities say 40-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus abducted her. The two met at the ... Read Full Story
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A look at some other cases in which women were accused of cutting babies from their slain mother's wombs: _ Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Missouri in December 2004 at Stinnett's home. Montgomery was arrested the next day in Melvern, Kan., where she was showing off the newborn as her own. _ Tiffany Hall of Illinois is serving life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to killing her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's three children. In September 2006, Hall repeatedly struck 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall on the head with a table leg, then cut ... Read Full Story
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On Friday, July 18, (2008) authorities discovered the gruesome scene where 18-year-old Kia Johnson's body was discovered in Andrea Curry-Demus' apartment. Johnson's womb had been ripped out and Curry-Demus had taken the baby as her own. Curry-Demus has been charged with the murder and kidnapping, but frighteningly enough, this is not the first time she has shown signs of being obsessed with having a baby of her own. In May of 1990, months after her own miscarriage, Curry-Demus was arrested for stabbing a woman in a plot to take her baby. The next day she was arrested for kidnapping a baby from the hospital. ... Read Full Story
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