Fort mitchell, kentucky (ap) -- a woman
stabbed to death while possibly trying to
steal a pregnant woman's fetus had been
carrying an ultrasound picture of someone
else's twins and was wearing maternity
clothing filled with padding.
Police said 26-year-old sarah brady, who
was nine months pregnant, acted in
self-defense thursday when she killed
katherine smith.
No charges had been filed sunday and
commonwealth attorney bill crockett said
he hadn't decided whether to present the
case to a grand jury.
The attack happened after smith called
brady and asked her to come over and pick
up a package supposedly delivered to her
by mistake.
"she was mentally disturbed," fort
mitchell police sgt. Tom loos said of
smith. "there is no question about it."
smith, 22, had been falsely telling
neighbors for weeks that she was pregnant,
and a search of her apartment after her
death revealed a full baby nursery,
investigators said.
Brady told police she was attacked when
she went into smith's first-floor
apartment to look at the woman's nursery.
Police released details of brady's
statement saturday.
"katie reached into her pocket, pulled out
this knife that was already open, put it
in the overhand thrust position and
attacked her with it," loos said. "sarah
was able to make it out into the hallway,
but katie reached out, grabbed her by the
hair, and pulled her back in."
loos said it appears that brady struck
smith on the head with an ash tray and
then grabbed the knife, stabbing smith
three times, including once in the upper
chest.
Loos said that when brady ran out of the
apartment and flagged down a passing
motorist for help, smith removed her
maternity underwear stuffed with padding
and called 911. Dispatchers kept her on
the line until she lost consciousness.
Smith bled to death. Police described
brady's wounds as cuts to her hands.
Loos said sunday that as far as he knew
brady had not yet delivered, although her
due date was reported as friday.
Smith also had an ultrasound picture of
unborn twins, and claimed they were her
twins from an earlier pregnancy who died
at birth, but loos said it was another
woman's ultrasound.
She also claimed to have a scar from a
caesarean section, but investigators said
it was from another surgical procedure.
"she convinced everyone she knew that she
had two deliveries, previously, in
hospitals and that those babies died at
the time of delivery," he said.
"she was clearly obsessed with
motherhood," loos said.
A spokeswoman for st. Elizabeth medical
center south in edgewood said smith worked
there from january 2003 through april
2004. Hospital officials wouldn't say
what job she had or why she left after 15
months.
One of her last jobs was as a nanny, a job
she lost shortly after thanksgiving, when
her employer began to doubt her pregnancy
story, loos said.
Several pregnant women have been killed in
recent years by attackers who then removed
their fetuses, in some cases to pass the
children off as their own.
In december, a missouri woman was
strangled and her baby was cut from her
womb. The baby was later found alive, and
a kansas woman was charged with kidnapping
resulting in death.
In 2003, a woman was shot to death in
oklahoma, allegedly by another woman who
then pretended the 6-month-old fetus was
her child. That fetus died.
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Tazzy D
Advanced Support Team
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 3718 Location: , va
Posted: 02-13-05 18:36pm
Man the stuff people are doing today... I
hope and pray when my children get old
enough it isnt this bad for them...
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Health Angel
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 141 Location: Australia
Posted: 02-13-05 18:42pm
That is so scarey, I havent heard of that
happening in australia and I hope I never
do.
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sftbllchika06
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 413 Location: St. Louis
Posted: 02-13-05 20:05pm
Why can't people just adopt children
instead of stealing? I hope they don't
convict her of any crime since the person
was trying to steal her baby. Some people
are so sick.
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 02-14-05 04:55am
The way she went about it was wrong.
Adoption is not easy - it is very hurtful
and unfair to say "why don't people just
adopt".
Wanting a child is all consuming. It
fills your days, it fills your mind, your
every waking moment.
Adoption is difficult, expensive and can
take a very long time even if you are
lucky enough to be accepted.
The are strict regulations on who will and
will not be accepted.
For those of you lucky enought to be
pregnat/have children already, thank your
lucky stars that you did not have to pass
an acceptance program first to prove that
you are a fit parent - that is what
adoption parents have to do.
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l2at24
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1509
Posted: 02-14-05 07:36am
Kia, I wish we all had to pass that fit
test before becoming parents, maybe there
wouldn't be so many bad people in the
world. And to sarah - you go girl!!!
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BrianBaby
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 1383
Posted: 02-14-05 08:16am
Sick sick sick.....
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Gemz
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 97 Location: Canada
Posted: 02-14-05 11:19am
It is sad that she had to take a life in
order to preserve hers and that of her
unborn child....But I say more power to
her..... I did not know that getting pg
was so tough these days I try not to worry
about it and leave it in gods hands
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FISHX
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 920 Location: UK
Posted: 02-14-05 11:26am
I think that sarha should get a medal for
what she did.
I really hope that no charges will be
brought against her that would be a
seriouse miscarrage of justice.