Milwaukee Woman Allegedly Murdered A Mom-To-Be To Steal Her Fetus
Oct. 10 2011, Published 7:25 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
A woman who was so desperate to give her boyfriend a son attacked a pregnant woman and ripped the unborn fetus out of her, killing both mother and child, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
Annette Morales-Rodriguez of Milwawkee was charged with two counts of murder on Monday after her victim, Marita Ramirez-Cruz and her child died just days before she was due to give birth, reported ABCNews.com.
Despite already having three children of her own, Morales-Rodriguez, 33, was determined to give her boyfriend a boy so she hunted down a pregnant woman, clubbed her victim with a bat, strangled her and then extracted the fetus with an Exacto knife.
23-year-old Ramirez-Cruz, also a mother of three, died after the baby was removed by force, with her uterus and part of her ovaries still attached to the fetus, which was estimated to be 38 to 42 weeks old when he died.
After stealing the baby, the attacker called 911 and claimed that she had given birth in the shower but that her baby boy wasn't breathing.
According to the D.A.'s criminal complaint, Morales-Rodriguez told a detective at the St Francis Hospital that she didn't realize she was pregnant and was allowed to leave but during a full examination the next day, doctors discovered that she hadn't recently given birth.