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Written by Kim

The only place we've seen this happening is on Grey's Anatomy, the series. Some women love babies, and others are desperate. However, some are crazy enough to cut the baby out of you if they can't have one. 

Prosecutors have filed two homicide charges against a US woman they believe abducted another woman and cut a full-term foetus out of her womb, killing both of them.

Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 33, faces one count of first-degree homicide while armed and one count of first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child while armed.
Both offences are punishable by mandatory life sentences. She was due to make her initial court appearance later on Monday.

According to a criminal complaint, Morales-Rodriguez told investigators her boyfriend wanted a son but she couldn't get pregnant. She told him she was pregnant anyway, but began to panic as her supposed due date approached.

She told investigators she planned for two weeks to find a pregnant woman, take her baby and make it her own, according to the complaint.

On Thursday she driving around looking for such a woman and encountered 23-year-old Maritz Ramirez-Cruz on the street. Ramirez-Cruz was due to give birth to her fourth child on October 16.

Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 33, faces one count of first-degree homicide while armed and one count of first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child while armed.
Both offences are punishable by mandatory life sentences. She was due to make her initial court appearance later on Monday.

According to a criminal complaint, Morales-Rodriguez told investigators her boyfriend wanted a son but she couldn't get pregnant. She told him she was pregnant anyway, but began to panic as her supposed due date approached.

She told investigators she planned for two weeks to find a pregnant woman, take her baby and make it her own, according to the complaint.

On Thursday she driving around looking for such a woman and encountered 23-year-old Maritz Ramirez-Cruz on the street. Ramirez-Cruz was due to give birth to her fourth child on October 16.

Morales-Rodriguez offered the other woman a ride, authorities said, and took her back to her house.

After Ramirez-Cruz went inside to use her toilet, Morales-Rodriguez attacked her with a baseball bat, the complaint said. After hitting her in the head several times, Morales-Rodriguez straddled her, choked her into unconsciousness and cut the foetus out of her womb with a box cutter, trying to imitate a Caesarean section she'd seen on the Discovery Channel.

The baby wasn't breathing when she removed it from the womb, she said. Morales-Rodriguez then called police and reported that she had given birth to a stillborn baby.

An autopsy, however, showed the baby was not the product of a natural birth. Police returned to Morales-Rodriguez's home Friday and took her to a hospital, where it was discovered she hadn't given birth. She was arrested, and the charges were laid on Monday.