Three children were found dead hours after the a woman was charged with killing their mother and her unborn baby. The mother seems to have been knocked unconscious and then the child inside her was cut out of the womb supposedly with a pair of scissors. She was seven months' pregnant. The foetus did not survive.
This was in East St. Louis, Missouri, the same state with the recent case of a mother of a newborn was slashed in the throat and her baby stolen. In that case, the baby has been reunited with her family and a woman has been charged in the attack.
A woman is at a greater risk for being a victim of violence or murder when she is pregnant, although it is usually due to domestic disputes. Pregnancy puts a lot of pressure on the family dynamics. Apparently it also brings out those obsessed with having a child of their own, or at least the attention of doing so. But I have to admit, I worry occasionally about the girls at work who are pregnant, because frankly there are those lunatics out there who do things like this.
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