'Serial womb raider' accused of cutting baby from mother's womb 'had baby snatch history'

Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, had tried to claim she had just given birth to the baby boy when she turned up at a US hospital.

The baby's umbilical cord was still attached and the newborn had not been cleaned up since the birth.

Suspect: Andrea Curry-Demus has been arrested after it is believed she tried to pass a newborn baby off as her own that she had been hacked from its mother's womb

But after tests quickly established Curry-Demus had not given birth she later claimed to have bought the baby for $500 from a friend.

Neighbours of the Curry-Demus, who has a history of trying to steal babies, noticed a foul smell coming from her flat in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

When police broke in they discovered the body of Kia Johnson. She had been, drugged, tied up and her uterus sliced open.

Authorities said Johnson, who was almost at full term pregnancy, had been partially eviscerated with most of her organs removed.

Scene of the crime: The butchered body of the baby's mother, Kia Johnson, was found at the home of Andrea Curry-Demus after neighbours reported 'a funny smell'

Her hands and feet had been bound with duct tape and there was evidence that she had been drugged before the horrific attack.

A placenta was found at the scene, according to the county coroner.

Curry-Demus was charged with child endangerment and dealing in infant children after a brief court appearance.

She is being held on £5,000 bond and is to undergo psychiatric tests.

In the early 1990s, Curry-Demus pleaded guilty to charges relating to abducting a baby and stabbing a pregnant woman in a plot to steal her unborn child.

Court records show that Curry-Demus became pregnant at 12 and miscarried four months later.

She had a second miscarriage in 1990, when she was 21.

The horrific womb raider incident is identical to one last month when Sisouvanh Synhavong stole a baby from a women she befriended on a bus.

The 23-year-old kidnapped pregnant mum of two Araceli Gomez,27, bound and gagged her before slicing open her womb to steal her baby.

She has been charged with first degree murder and faces the death penalty if convicted.

Earlier this year, a Kansas woman was sentenced to death in the 2004 killing of a Missouri woman whose baby was cut from her womb.

Lisa Montgomery was convicted in October in the death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was found strangled in her Skidmore, Missouri, home. 

Stinnett's womb was cut open, and her unborn child was missing. Montgomery was found days later at home in Kansas, where she was attempting to pass the baby off as her own.