"Wanted a Baby"… Brazilian 'Agidoduk' Who Cut Open Pregnant Woman's Belly to Steal Fetus

Pamela was 21 years old and eight months pregnant.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Eun-young] In Brazil, a woman who said she "wanted to have a child" killed a pregnant woman, cut open her abdomen, and stole the fetus.

On the 17th (local time), local media reported that the police arrested a suspect known as the 'fetus thief' who killed a pregnant woman and took out the fetus in Maca?, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

On that day, Pamela Feheiro Andrade Martins (21), a full-term pregnant woman, was found dead in the bathroom of her home in Nova Holanda, Maca?. She was a mother of a 2-year-old son and was carrying an 8-month-old fetus.

The discovered body was in a very horrific state. Her family explained that the bathroom door was locked at the time, so they had to break the door to enter. Someone had killed the pregnant woman, deliberately locked the door, and fled.

However, there was something strange about her mutilated body. The fetus that should have been inside her abdomen was nowhere to be found. The police suspected that someone forcibly took out the fetus. They also judged that the fetus forcibly removed from the abdomen could not be intact and searched all nearby hospitals.

Soon, the police found a woman in her 20s who was admitted to a nearby municipal hospital with a deceased newborn and identified her as a suspect, proceeding with the arrest.

The unidentified 22-year-old woman identified as the suspect completely denied the crime. According to the police, the suspect stated that she had given birth to the baby and that the baby died after she fell down the stairs while holding the baby.

However, the police focused on the hospital examination results, which showed no signs of childbirth in the suspect. They also secured testimonies from acquaintances that the suspect had been pretending to be pregnant.

There was also a witness who saw the suspect at the victim’s workplace a day before the incident. On that day, the suspect reportedly said, "No matter what happens, I will have a child."

The police collected two knives believed to have been used in the crime from the suspect’s bag. They have requested DNA analysis of the seized weapons and plan to conduct autopsies to determine the exact cause of death and clarify the parent-child relationship among the deceased newborn, the suspect, and the victim.

Meanwhile, recently, 'baby thief' crimes have been frequently occurring in Brazil. Last summer, in Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil, a woman in her 20s who was obsessed with a baby after a miscarriage cut open the abdomen of a pregnant friend and stole the baby. The pregnant woman died from the incident, but the baby survived.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.