Woman kills pregnant mother and cut baby out of her

Catch my weekly radio show:blogtalkradio.com Join me on Facebook:facebook.com Follow me on Twitter:tinyurl.com Skype:theadviseshow2 MILWAUKEE A Milwaukee woman was convicted Thursday of killing a pregnant woman and trying to steal her full-term fetus last year. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for about an hour before convicting Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 34, of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the October 2011 deaths of the mother and fetus. She faces a mandatory life sentence when she is sentenced Dec. 14, although a judge could allow for the possibility of parole. Wisconsin doesn’t have the death penalty. Prosecutors said Morales-Rodriguez faked a pregnancy, panicked as her supposed due date approached and then lured 23-year-old Maritza Ramirez-Cruz to her house. There, she attacked her and used an X-Acto knife to cut the fetus out, according to the criminal complaint. Ramirez-Cruz died of blood loss and asphyxiation, and her fetus, a boy, died as a result of her death, authorities say. Morales-Rodriguez’s defense attorneys didn’t deny that she attacked Ramirez-Cruz. But they argued that the deaths of the mother and fetus weren’t intentional because Morales-Rodriguez didn’t intend for anyone to die. Morales-Rodriguez did not testify during the trial, and her attorneys did not call any witnesses. The strongest evidence against Morales-Rodriguez was a videotaped interview she gave to police in which she recounted the attack. She explained <b>…</b>

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