Baby on life support after being cut out from mother's womb.
A BABY is on life support after a woman allegedly killed its mother and cut the baby from her womb.
A 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.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23951925-663,00.html
The debate now is if the lady that cut the baby out of the womb deserves the death penalty. What would you do?
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